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        <fi:Text><![CDATA[<b>Recommendation </b><b>for 2014</b><b>-2016</b>]]></fi:Text>
        <fi:Text><![CDATA[No directed fishery to allow for stock rebuilding. By-catches of witch flounder in other fisheries should be kept at the lowest possible level.]]></fi:Text>
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        <fi:Text><![CDATA[No explicit management plan or management objectives are defined by Fisheries Commission. General convention objectives (GC Doc. 08/3) are applied. Advice is based on survey indices, catch trends and estimates of recruitment.]]></fi:Text>
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      <fi:Text><![CDATA[The stock remains below Blim. Recruitment in 2011 and 2012 was below average and fishing mortality is currently low.]]></fi:Text>
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        <fi:RefPoint>
          <fi:Text><![CDATA[Blim is 15% of the highest observed survey biomass, adjusted to the entire stock distribution (B1984*1.48) (STACFIS 2010 p 193).]]></fi:Text>
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          <fi:Text><![CDATA[Quantitative assessment of risk at various catch options is not possible at this time.]]></fi:Text>
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            <fi:Text><![CDATA[Qualitative evaluation of trends in survey biomass indices relative to exploitation and recruitment information were used to assess the status of the stock. Next assessment is planned for 2016.]]></fi:Text>
            <fi:Text><![CDATA[<b>Human impact</b>]]></fi:Text>
            <fi:Text><![CDATA[Mainly bycatch related fishery mortality has been documented. Other sources (e.g. pollution, shipping, oil-industry) are undocumented.]]></fi:Text>
            <fi:Text><![CDATA[<b>Biological and environmental interactions</b>]]></fi:Text>
            <fi:Text><![CDATA[In the late 1970s and early 1980s witch flounder were widely distributed throughout the Div. 2J3KL shelf area in deeper channels around the fishing banks, and were more abundant in Div. 3K. By the mid-1980s they were rapidly disappearing and by the early 1990s had virtually disappeared from the area entirely except for some very small catches along the slope and more to the southern area. Since 1998, witch flounder have been found mostly along the deep continental slope area, in depths of 200-750m.]]></fi:Text>
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        <fi:Text><![CDATA[<b>Special comments</b>]]></fi:Text>
        <fi:Text><![CDATA[None]]></fi:Text>
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    <fi:Exploit>
      <fi:Text><![CDATA[A moratorium was implemented in 1995 following drastic declines in catch from the mid-70s, and catches since then have been low levels of bycatch in other fisheries (e.g. Greenland halibut and redfish fisheries). ]]></fi:Text>
      <fi:Text><![CDATA[Recent catch estimates and TACs are:]]></fi:Text>
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            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2004</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2005</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2006</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2007</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2008</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2009</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2010</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2011</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2012</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid;">2013</td>
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            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
            <td style="border-top: 1px solid;">ndf</td>
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            <td>STATLANT 21</td>
            <td align="center">0.3</td>
            <td align="center">0.2</td>
            <td align="center">0.1</td>
            <td align="center">0.1</td>
            <td align="center">0.1</td>
            <td align="center">0.1</td>
            <td align="center">0.2</td>
            <td align="center">0.2</td>
            <td align="center">0.2</td>
            <td> </td>
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            <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">STACFIS </td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.8</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.2</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.1</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.1</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.1</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.1</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.2</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.2</td>
            <td align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;">0.2</td>
            <td> </td>
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              <p>ndfno directed fishing.</p>
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      <fi:Text><![CDATA[<b>Effects of the fishery on the ecosystem</b>]]></fi:Text>
      <fi:Text><![CDATA[There is no directed fishery.]]></fi:Text>
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      <fi:BiblioEntry>SCR Doc. 13/39; SCS Doc. 13/07, 09, 13<dc:Identifier Type="URI">http://www.nafo.int/publications/frames/sci-docs.html</dc:Identifier>
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      <fi:BiblioEntry>Report of the Meeting, 7-20 June, 2013 - SCS Doc. 13/17<dc:Identifier Type="URI">http://www.nafo.int/publications/frames/sci-reports.html</dc:Identifier>
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      <fi:BiblioEntry>GC Doc. 08/3<dc:Identifier Type="URI">http://archive.nafo.int/open/gc/2008/gcdoc08-03.pdf</dc:Identifier>
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