Science Advisory Report 2008/009
Assessment of Newfoundland and Labrador Snow Crab
Summary
- The multi-species surveys in Div. 2J3KLNO during fall and in Div. 3LNOPs during spring indicate a decline in exploitable biomass from 1998-2003 and 1999-2004 respectively. However survey indices and commercial CPUE agree that the exploitable biomass has increased in the north (Div. 2J3K) in 2006 and 2007.
- Recruitment has increased overall since 2005 due to increases in the north, while prospects have improved in the south.
- Longer-term recruitment prospects are uncertain but the persistence of a warm oceanographic regime implies poor prospects relative to the strong recruitment of the late 1990’s.
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