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EastMed Technical Documents - No 18 Report of the 2nd Meeting of the Permanent Working Group on Stock Assessment Kavala, Greece 9 - 14 September 2013

Year of publication 2013

Pages 54 p.

Author FAO EastMed project

Product type Project

Series title EastMed Technical Documents (FAO)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The second meeting of the EASTMED Permanent Working Group on Stock Assessment was held in Kavala (Greece) from 9 to 14 of September 2013. It was attended by experts from Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, and Turkey as well as FAO staff. The meeting had six main general objectives i) to identify surveys and fishery-dependent data collection projects carried out in the last 10 years in each country of Eastmed area; ii) to provide advice on how to increase the standardization between surveys c arried out in the Eastmed area; iii) to process with the raw data as collected through the pilot activities supported by the project and/or supported by the countries in the framework of the DCF, in order to produce stock assessments aiming to be presented in the GFCM WGs, iv) to make an effort to define a few shared stocks in order to monitor through the GFCM management plans, v) to discuss the possibility of establishing two WGs on stock assessment, one for demersals and one for small pelagics , vi) to define gaps existed in the sampling protocol which is used during the implementation of the pilot activities on data collection and decide on amendments. Furthermore five stock assessments were accomplished out and other preliminary analyses were carried out. The five stocks assessed, represented also by two Lessepsian species, showed a state of overfishing with the exception of Spicara smaris in GSA 25. The outcomes provided by such analyses will be presented during the next GFCM WG on demersal.

Meeting Session Number Sess. 2

Language English

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