1989/90 stock status and TAC assessment for Champsocephalus gunnari in Subarea 48.3 (South Georgia)
Abstract / Description:
The 1989/90 stock status and TAC assessment for Champsocephalus gunnari in South Georgia Subarea (48.3) has been made using the biostatistic material for 1982/83 to 1987/88 collected by Soviet scientists. VPA tuning has been made by the Laurec-Shepherd method (1985) using standardized fishing effort. For the beginning of the 1989/90 fishing season, the stock was assessed at 130.2 thousand tonnes and the TAC at 23.6 thousand tonnes.