Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Assessment of Cephalopod Stocks

Project for the Development of Fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic
Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic
CECAF/ECAF SERIES 78/11 (E)

Laboratorio Oceanográfico
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
18-23 September 1978

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1. OPENING OF THE MEETING

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE FISHERY

2.1 The resources
2.2 The fleets

3. POPULATION AND BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS

3.1 Growth of octopus
3.2 Mortalities

(a) Natural mortality
(b) Fishing and total mortalities

3.3 Selectivity and mesh size assessments (octopus and cuttlefishes)
3.4 Length measurement for stock assessment purposes

4. PRODUCTION MODELS