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The US Sustainable Fisheries Act requires overfishing limits for all managed stocks and evaluations of whether stocks are in overfished status or subject to overfishing. Overfishing is defined relative to the exploitation rate corresponding to MSY, F-MSY, while being in an overfished state relates to stock biomass relative to the biomass corresponding to MSY, B-MSY. F-MSY and B-MSY are impossible to estimate for most US fish and invertebrate stocks. Consequently, management advice for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab stocks is based on "proxies", such as that F-MSY is approximated by F-35%. Furthermore, B-MSY should be defined under prevailing environmental conditions, which implies using only past data under current environmental conditions to estimate B-MSY. Assessments for five BSAI crab stocks are used to evaluate the estimates of B-MSY from a variety of methods for calculating B-MSY proxies. Analyses based on fitting stock-recruitment relationships to the estimates of recruitment and mature male biomass from these assessments suggest that the assumption F-MSY = F-35% is generally reasonable, but that the stock and recruitment data do not generally support the current B-MSY values. Changes over time in average recruitment and in the form of the stock-recruitment relationship were found for most stocks. Of the methods considered, fitting stock-recruitment relationships and exploring whether they have changed over time appears the most promising approach. The dynamic B-0 method also appears promising, but there is considerable uncertainty in B-MSY values between harvest control rules, and assumptions regarding how recruitment is adjusted given changes in mature male biomass.
- 出版日期2014-9
