Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
We all want the fishery to be a success and maintain a good population of striped bass, the regulators only want maximum sustainable yield.
|
By the way, technically, Makomike is correct when he says asmfc doesn't manage for Maximum Sustainable Yield. After an old thread, I dug into the details deeper since I didn't really follow the specific details much after I finished grad work around 03.
The reality: up to 2013, the
target mortality was F=0.3, which was based on a MSY of F=0.34. They also included
target spawning stock levels, relative to the 1995 levels. They ended up with two conflicting targets. The mortality target was for all intents and purposes, basically just under MSY. In 2013, they adjusted (lowered) the target mortality after it became apparent to themthat the regulations conflicted and, one might assume (a decade later than many of us) , were not sustainable. As I noted in that other thread, as of a year ago, some members of the commission believe that we are currently under harvesting.
And here we are...