Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish, Subgroup South, Accra, Ghana, 19-28 October 2009
The second meeting of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish – Subgroup South met in Accra, Ghana, from 19 to 28 October 2009. The overall objective of the Working Group is to contribute to the improved management of small pelagic resources in West Africa through the assessment of the state of the stocks and fisheries to ensure sustainable use of these resources for the benefit of coastal countries. The Working Group focused on data quality and on the analysis of trends in the basic data (catch, effort, abundance indices and length distribution) and trends in the fishery independent survey data. The species assessed by the Working Group were: sardinella (Sardinella aurita and Sardinella maderensis), bonga (Ethmalosa fimbriata), anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and horse mackerel (Trachurus trecae and Decapterus rhonchus) and other Carangidae, in the region between the northern border of Guinea-Bissau and the southern border of Angola.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
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Rome (Italy) FAO
2013
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| Subjects: | small-scale fisheries, pelagic fisheries, fishery resources, stock assessment, fishery management, Sardinella, shad, anchovies, horse mackerel, fishery data, statistical data, |
| Online Access: | http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2909b.pdf |
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