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| Fact Sheet Title Fact Sheet |
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| Queen conch - Turks and Caicos |
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| | Data Ownership | | This document provided, maintained and owned by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , is part of WECAFC Stock Status Reports data collection. |
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| ident Block | ident Block | | | | Species List: | | Species Ref: en - Queen conch, fr - Lambi, es - Caracol reina, zh - 大凤凰螺 |
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| TCA | Turks and Caicos Is. |
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| Aq Res | Biological Stock: Yes
Value: National
Reference year: 2012 |
| Considered a management unit: An aquatic resource or fishery is
declared as [Fishery] Management Unit if it is
effectively the focus for the application of selected
management methods and measures, within the broader
framework of a management system. According to the FAO
Glossary for Responsible Fishing, "a Fishery Management
Unit (FMU) is a fishery or a portion of a fishery
identified in a Fishery Management Plan (FMP) relevant
to the FMP's management objectives." FMU's may be
organised around fisheries biological, geographic,
economic, technical, social or ecological dimensions ,
and the makeup and attribute of a fishery management
unit depends mainly on the FMP's management
objectives. |
| Jurisdictional distribution: Jurisdictional qualifier (e.g.
"shared", "shared - highly migratory") of the aquatic
resource related with its spatial distribution. |
| Environmental group: Classification of the aquatic
resource according to the environmental group (e.g.
pelagic invertebrate, or demersal fish) to which the
species belong. |
| Reference Year: The Reference Year is the last year considered in the stock assessment and/or fishery status. |
| | | | | | Habitat Bio Climatic Zone: Tropical. Bottom Type: Seagrass; Soft bottom clean sand. Depth Zone: Coastal - Shallow waters, inshore (0 m - 50 m). Horizontal Dist: Littoral. Vertical Dist: Demersal/Benthic. Geo Dist Geo Dist: Unspecified Water Area Overview  | | Water Area Overview Queen conch - Turks and Caicos
| Exclusive Economic Zone Areas (EEZ) | TCA: Turks and Caicos Is. |
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Water Area OverviewQueen conch - Turks and Caicos Aq Res Struct Biological Stock: Yes Exploit The queen conch fishery is the second most valuable fishery in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and has been sustainably harvested in TCI's coastal waters for decades. Catch and effort data for the queen conch fishery have been collected by the fishery department since 1974. Fishery independent surveys in the form of visual surveys are carried out periodically. Stock assessments using production models as the primary stock evaluation model have been conducted annually. Turks and Caicos Islands Queen conch fishery Bio Assess The catch and effort data were analyzed using the ASPIC software for production modeling (Prager 1994). Assess Models Type: Biomass-aggregated Results The resulting estimates of MSY are much lower than those obtained in previous analyses for this stock. Figure 2 clearly indicates the model is not fitting well, as a strong residual pattern exists. Sources CRFM 2014. Report of Tenth Annual CRFM Scientific Meeting – Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 10-17 June 2014. CRFM Fishery Report - 2014. Volume 1. 179p.  http://www.crfm.net/images/Report%20of%20the%20Tenth%20Annual%20CRFM%20Scientific%20Meeting%20-%20Volume%201%20(final%20online%20copy)%20.pdf Bibliography All references to figures, tables and bibliography in the text are found within the source of information. |
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