Type
Report - Fisheries Assessment Report (FAR)
Subject
News & Resources, Publications, Fisheries
Acoustic data on spawning southern blue whiting were collected along 43 transects in 5 snapshots south of the Bounty Islands from FV Tomi Maru 87 between 24 and 30 August 2014. The biomass estimate for 2014, based on the average of all 5 snapshots, was 11 832 t (CV 31%). This was only 41% of the estimate from 2013 (28 533 t), and the lowest in the industry acoustic time-series. This fishery is still dominated by fish from the strong 2002 year-class, but the 2007 year-class is also important.
Published
ISBN Online
978-0-477-10524-8
ISSN Online
1179-5352