trawler bycatch data

[agentaqua]

I think what you are asking for is covered in the GF IFMP. The mid water trawl fleet has (as long as I'm aware) had lingcod TAC available to them to target. They may not have used the full TAC in years of higher abundance of preferred (more marketable) species. I have heard they were struggling to catch hake making the fishery unprofitable. Seen quite a few vessels tied up not fishing, (and a lot less out on the fishing grounds) which without confirming seems to suggest the fishing and market conditions impacted their fishery.

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2025/mpo-dfo/Fs143-3-23-2527-eng.pdf

Thanks for the links, Searun. Been a while since I read the trawler section starting on page 200. And it looks like it's been quite a while since they looked at lingcod wrt stock assessment & catch limits:

Terms of Reference

Terms of Reference

www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

And they just increased the fleet-wide TAC for the trawl fleet:

Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Fishery Notices

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

 

[searun]

There will be an outside lingcod CSAS paper coming out at some point in near future to update the stock assessment, methodology etc.