Science Response 2016/006

Update of stock status indicators for Northern Shrimp, Pandalus borealis, and Striped Shrimp, Pandalus montagui, in the western and eastern assessment zones for 2016

Context

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Resource Management requested an update of Science advice on the stock status of the two species of shrimp, Northern Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) and Striped Shrimp (P. montagui), in the Western Assessment Zone (WAZ) and Eastern Assessment Zone (EAZ). The Zonal Advisory Process (ZAP) for the WAZ, EAZand Shrimp Fishing Areas (SFA) 4-6 is scheduled for a full assessment of each SFA biennially (odd numbered years) with updates of the key indices of the Precautionary Approach (PA) framework in intervening years. The EAZ has been fully assessed three times as an assessment zone DFO 2011, 2013, 2015) and twice prior as SFA 2 (DFO 2008, 2010). The WAZ has only been fully assessed as a unit once (DFO 2015). It had been assessed prior to that in 2010 (DFO 2010) and 2008 (DFO 2008) as SFA 2, 3 and 4 for P. montagui only. The status of resources in both the WAZ and EAZ have been updated between ZAPs in 2012 (DFO 2012) and 2014 (DFO 2014). Assessments follow the framework developed in 2007 for Northern Shrimp off Labrador and the northeastern coast of Newfoundland (DFO 2007a). The basis of the update is a series of previously reported fishery-independent surveys and fishery data, and new survey and catch data from the 2015/16 fishing season.

This Science Response Report results from the Science Response Process of January 2016 on the Update of Stock Status Indicators for Northern Shrimp,Pandalus borealis, and Striped Shrimp, Pandalus montagui, in the Western and Eastern Assessment Zones.

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