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| Marine Resource Fact Sheet |
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| Alfonsino - Northeast Atlantic, 2008 |
 | Alfonsinos/Golden eye perch (Beryx spp.) |
| | Data Ownership | | This document provided, maintained and owned by International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) , is part of ICES Advice data collection. |
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| Related observations | Locate in inventory | | | | Species: | | FAO Names: en - Alfonsinos nei, fr - Béryx nca, es - Alfonsinos nep, ru - Бериксы |
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| Geographic extent of Alfonsino - Northeast Atlantic Map tips - Click on
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| FAO Major Fishing Areas |
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| 27 | Atlantic, Northeast |
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| Main Descriptors | Considered a single stock: Yes Spatial Scale: Sub-Regional
Management unit: Yes |
| Considered a single stock: A group of individuals in a species occupying a well defined spatial range independent of other stocks of the same species. It can be affected by random dispersal movements and directed migrations due to seasonal or reproductive activity. |
| Spatial Scale: Spatial scale contains a standard term such as Global, Regional (e.g. for the whole Atlantic), sub-regional (e.g. for a part of the Atlantic), national, local (for sub-national levels). |
| 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. |
| | | | | | Habitat and Biology Depth zone: Slope (200 m - 1000 m). Vertical distribution: Demersal/Benthic. Geographical Distribution Jurisdictional distribution: Straddling between High Seas and EEZ Water Area Overview Spatial Scale: Sub-Regional Geo References  | | Geographic extent of Alfonsino - Northeast Atlantic
| FAO Major Fishing Areas | 27: Atlantic, Northeast |
| | | | | | Intersecting Major FAO areas and LME areas |
The following area codes have been found as intersecting the distribution of Alfonsino - Northeast Atlantic | FAO Major Fishing Areas | 27: Atlantic, Northeast | | Large Marine Ecosystem Areas (LME) | 19: East Greenland Shelf | | 20: Barents Sea | | 21: Norwegian Shelf | | 22: North Sea | | 23: Baltic Sea | | 24: Celtic-Biscay Shelf | | 25: Iberian Coastal | | 58: Kara Sea | | 59: East Greenland Shelf/Sea | | 60: Faroe Plateau | | 64: Arctic Ocean | | 65: Arctic Archipelago |
Resource Structure Considered a single stock: Yes Assessment Scientific Advice Single-stock exploitation boundariesThe only new information available for these species is landings information and it is not sufficient to change the advice from 2006. The advice for 2009 and 2010 is therefore the same as the advice given in 2006: “ Due to their spatial distribution associated with seamounts, their life history and their aggregation behaviour, alfonsinos are easily overexploited by trawl fishing; they can only sustain low rates of exploitation. Fisheries on such species should not be allowed to expand above current levels unless it can be shown that such expansion is sustainable. To prevent wiping out entire subpopulations that have not yet been mapped and assessed the exploitation of new seamounts should not be allowed.” Management Management unit: Yes Biological State and Trend Exploitation rate: Undefined
Abundance level: Undefined Source of information ICES. 2009. Report of the ICES Advisory Committee, 2009. ICES Advice, 2009. |
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