gorelli@firms 2017-08-28 3 CECAF Stock Status Reports Rapports de l'état des stocks COPACE 6426 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (+39) 06 57051 (+39) 06 570 53152 FAO-HQ@fao.org http://www.fao.org 3 CECAF Scientific advice Conseil scientifique du COPACE FAO CECAF Scientific Sub-Committee Sous-Comité scientifique du COPACE (FAO) FIRMS Reports Rapports FIRMS 2017-08-28 Bonga shad - Nigeria and Cameroon 13781 2095 Bonga shad Ethmalose d'Afrique Sábalo africano Бонга Zone sud de l'Atlantique Centre Est 593 Central Gulf of Guinea Golfe de Guinée, centre Golfo de Guinea central 12 Atlantic, Eastern Central Atlantique, centre-est Atlántico, centro-oriental 2012 2016 Ethmalose (Ethmalosa fimbriata) - stock centre (Nigéria et Cameroun) 13422 Bonga shad - Southern Area of Eastern Central Atlantic 3118 Nigeria 12 Atlantic, Eastern Central Atlantique, centre-est Atlántico, centro-oriental 5020 Guinea Current 3025 Cameroon 12 Atlantic, Eastern Central Atlantique, centre-est Atlántico, centro-oriental 5020 Guinea Current The CECAF Working Groups have adopted the following Biological Reference Points (BRPs):
- Limit Reference points: BMSY and FMSY
- Target Reference Points: B0.1 and F0.1
Stock status is assigned based on current estimates of fishing mortality (Fcur) and biomass (Bcur) relative to these target and limit reference points (Bcur/BMSY, Fcur/FMSY, Bcur/B0.1, Fcur/F0.1). The results from the stock assessment of this stock are found under the “Biological state and trend section”.]]> FAO. 2016. Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic, Report of the seventh session of the Scientific Sub-Committee, Tenerife, Spain, 14–16 October 2015 / Comité des pêches pour l’Atlantique Centre-Est Rapport de la septième session du Sous-Comité scientifique. Tenerife, Espagne 14-16 octobre 2015. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report / FAO Rapport sur les pêches et l’aquaculture No. 1128. Rome, Italy. http://www.fao.org/3/I5301Bi/i5301bi.pdf FAO. 2015. Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish – Subgroup South. Pointe Noire, Congo, 17–23 March 2014. Rapport du Groupe de travail FAO/COPACE sur l’évaluation des petits poissons pélagiques – Sous-groupe Sud. Pointe Noire, Congo, 17-23 mars 2014. CECAF/ECAF Series / COPACE/PACE Séries No. 15/75 Rome, FAO. 157 pp. http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5040b.pdf