{"id":5112,"date":"2014-09-02T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2014-09-02T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:15:16","slug":"lobster-stock-indicators-provide-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/lobster-stock-indicators-provide-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobster stock \u2018indicators\u2019 provide preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALEXANDRIA, VA \u2013 Scientists conducting the 2014 \u201cbenchmark\u201d stock assessment for American lobsters have given the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) a \u201cpreview\u201d of the general condition of the resource based on a set of telltale stock \u201cindicators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The assessment itself, which involves computer models and a thorough analysis of landings, survey, biological, environmental, and catch data, won\u2019t be completed until early winter and then must go out for peer review.\u00a0 The final results will be presented to ASMFC\u2019s American Lobster Management Board in May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>But during the board\u2019s Aug. 5 meeting here, Bob Glenn of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), who is the new chair of ASMFC\u2019s American Lobster Technical Committee (TC) and chairman of the TC\u2019s American Lobster Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS), told the board that the SAS took an early look at survey and landing trends and indicators in order to provide a \u201cthumbnail sketch\u201d of stock conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The SAS used the popular \u201ctraffic light\u201d approach to describe how things were looking:\u00a0 \u201cgreen\u201d being good; \u201cyellow\u201d being cautionary; and \u201cred\u201d being bad.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the indicators \u2013 and far from being the last word pending the results of the full assessment \u2013 the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank lobster stocks appear to be in \u201cgood\u201d condition, but the Southern New England stock remains in \u201cpoor\u201d shape.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"CFN_9_14cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/CFN_9_14cover.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"296\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read the rest and much, much more in the September issue of Commercial Fisheries News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read online\u00a0immediately and download for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>[add_to_cart=5081]<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALEXANDRIA, VA \u2013 Scientists conducting the 2014 \u201cbenchmark\u201d stock assessment for American lobsters have given the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) a \u201cpreview\u201d of the general condition of the resource based on a set of telltale stock \u201cindicators.\u201d The assessment itself, which involves computer models and a thorough analysis of landings, survey, biological, environmental, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/lobster-stock-indicators-provide-preview\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,122,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lobster","category-research","category-september-14","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}