Evaluating the sustainability of a de facto harvest strategy for British Columbia's Spot Prawn (Pandalus platyceros) fishery in the presence of environmental drivers of recruitment and hyperstable catch rates

no code implementations • 13 Jan 2023 • Steven P. Rossi, Sean P. Cox, Samuel D. N. Johnson, Ashleen J. Benson

The Spot Prawn trap fishery off the west coast of British Columbia (BC) is managed using a fixed escapement strategy that aims to prevent recruitment overfishing while maximizing expected long-term yield by closing the fishery when the catch rate of spawners, projected to the following spring, drops below 1. 7 spawners per trap (the de jure rule).

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