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Report of the third meeting of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Resources, Subgroup South, Accra, Ghana, 15-24 November 2011 / Rapport du Groupe de travail FAO/COPACE sur l’évaluation des ressources démersales – Sous-groupe Sud. Accra, Ghana, 15-24 novembre 2011

Year of publication 2015

Pages 388 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

ISBN 978-92-5-008967-6

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The third meeting of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Resources, Subgroup South met in Accra, Ghana, from 15-24 November 2011 in the FAO Regional Office.The Group assessed the status of the demersal resources in Southwest Africa and advise on future effort and catch levels. The advices for the stocks are given in relation to the agreed reference points F0.1, FMSY, B0.1. Six stocks could not be assessed using any of the models because the data available to the working gr oup were not in the appropriate format and/or not sufficient to use in the assessment models. Catch and effort data were incomplete for the latter years in several of the data series. The working group also noted that catch and effort information from some countries in the region is no longer being collected. The results of the assessments show that many of the stocks analyzed are fully (13) to overexploited (9), and the working group thus recommended that fishing effort should be reduced for t he overexploited stocks or not increased for the other stocks, to avoid further depletion. When possible, recommendations on catch levels are also indicated for each stock. Given that most fisheries in the region are multi specific, an overall reduction in fishing effort is necessary.

Meeting Session Number 15/76

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