Aq Res State Trend
There remain significant uncertainties associated with the status of the stock(s) in the South-east Pacific.
Habitat Bio
Climatic Zone: Temperate. Horizontal Dist: Oceanic. Vertical Dist: Pelagic.
Geo Dist
Geo Dist: Straddling between High Seas and EEZ
Aq Res Struct
Biological Stock: No
Dosidicus gigas is the largest ommastrephid squid and occurs only within the Eastern Pacific Ocean from northern California to southern Chile. Within the equatorial area the range is stretched westward as a strip, narrowing to the west and reaching 140˚ W.
D. gigas supports a major fishery off Chile, Peru and the Gulf of California, with combined cephalopod landings of 1 078 436 tonnes in 2014.
D. gigas is monocyclic and dies after spawning, therefore populations are highly variable. The abundance of
D. gigas is thought to be largely influenced by environmental variables such as ENSO events. During El Niño years populations have decreased and landings have reflected this by declining sharply.
Exploit
As described in SC6-SQ01.
Southeast Pacific SPRFMO high seas jumbo flying squid fishery Fishery Indicators
| Type | Measure | Value | Unit | Time period |
|---|
| Production | Catch | 12653 | tonnes | 1990 |
| Catch | 108736 | tonnes | 1991 |
| Catch | 211855 | tonnes | 1992 |
| Catch | 266484 | tonnes | 1993 |
| Catch | 364044 | tonnes | 1994 |
| Catch | 181389 | tonnes | 1995 |
| Catch | 22237 | tonnes | 1996 |
| Catch | 32641 | tonnes | 1997 |
| Catch | 552 | tonnes | 1998 |
| Catch | 74432 | tonnes | 1999 |
| Catch | 108504 | tonnes | 2000 |
| Catch | 171078 | tonnes | 2001 |
| Catch | 296531 | tonnes | 2002 |
| Catch | 304708 | tonnes | 2003 |
| Catch | 728339 | tonnes | 2004 |
| Catch | 694221 | tonnes | 2005 |
| Catch | 737218 | tonnes | 2006 |
| Catch | 613130 | tonnes | 2007 |
| Catch | 795585 | tonnes | 2008 |
| Catch | 557460 | tonnes | 2009 |
| Catch | 756460 | tonnes | 2010 |
| Catch | 861053 | tonnes | 2011 |
| Catch | 925914 | tonnes | 2012 |
| Catch | 834780 | tonnes | 2013 |
| Catch | 1078436 | tonnes | 2014 |
| Catch | 996983 | tonnes | 2015 |
| Catch | 747995 | tonnes | 2016 |
| Catch | 758577 | tonnes | 2017 |
| Catch | 816914 | tonnes | 2018 |
| Catch | 900027 | tonnes | 2019 |
| Catch | 910080 | tonnes | 2020 |
| Catch | 477970 | tonnes | 2021 |
Bio Assess
Uncertainty: High
No agreed stock assessment.
Sources
SPRFMO. 2023. COMM11–Inf01_rev2, Catch data submitted to the SPRFMO Secretariat. Eleventh meeting of the Commission, Manta, Ecuador, 13-17 February 2023.
https://www.sprfmo.int/assets/Meetings/01-COMM/11th-Commission-2023/information-papers/COMM11-Inf01_rev2-Data-Submitted-to-the-Secretariat-v3.pdfSPRFMO. 2022. Report of the tenth meeting of the Scientific Committee, Seoul, Korea, 26-30 September 2022.
https://www.sprfmo.int/assets/Meetings/SC/10th-SC-2022/SC10-Report-Final-19Jan2023-v2.pdfSPRFMO. 2022. SC10-SQ01_rev2, Squid information held by the Secretariat. Tenth meeting of the Scientific Committee, Seoul, Korea, 26-30 September 2022.
https://www.sprfmo.int/assets/Meetings/SC/10th-SC-2022/SC10-SQ01_rev2-Squid-information-held-by-the-Secretariat.pdfAll references to figures, tables and bibliography in the text are found within the source of information.
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