FAO Fisheries Report No. 619 Report on the
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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2001 |
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FAO/Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission. This document consists of three parts. Part I contains the proceedings of the two workshops, including lists of participants and the results of stock assessments by country and/or subregion made during the two workshops. Part II contains a combination of edited national reports in the original language, as presented at the two workshops on the spiny lobster fisheries in the Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, the USA and Venezuela. It also contains a combined list of all references of Parts I and II. Part III contains nine notes on stock assessment methods applicable to resources of spiny lobsters. |
PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT
PART I LOBSTER ASSESSMENT REPORTS
1. REPORT OF WORKSHOPS HELD IN BELIZE CITY AND MERIDA
2. REGIONAL REVIEW
3. BIOLOGY
4. REVIEW OF LARVAL RECRUITMENT PATTERNS AND VARIABILITY IN SPINY LOBSTER (PANULIRUS ARGUS)
5. REGION 1: BRAZIL AND VENEZUELA
6. REGION 2: BELIZE, SOUTHWEST CUBA AND MEXICO
7. REGION 3: NICARAGUA, HONDURAS, COLOMBIA AND JAMAICA
8. REGION 4: BAHAMAS, BERMUDA, NORTH CUBA, ST. LUCIA, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
9. BIOECONOMICS
10. MANAGEMENT: REVIEW OF EXISTING REGULATIONS
11. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
PART II NATIONAL REPORTS AND REFERENCES
1. NATIONAL REPORT ON THE SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY IN THE BAHAMAS
2. NATIONAL REPORT ON THE SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY IN BELIZE
3. NATIONAL REPORT ON THE SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY IN BERMUDA
4. NATIONAL REPORT ON THE SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY IN BRAZIL
5. ASPECTOS DE LAS PESQUERÍAS Y DE LA BIOLOGÍA DE LA LANGOSTA ESPINOSA EN LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA
6. NATIONAL REPORT ON THE LOBSTER FISHERIES IN CUBA
7. LA PESCA DE LANGOSTA EN LA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA
8. LA PESQUERÍA DE LA LANGOPOR
9. NATIONAL REPORT OF JAMAICA
10. LA PESQUERÍA DE LANGOSTASTA EN HONDURAS EN MÉXICO: YUCATÁN Y QUINTANA ROO
11. INFORME DE NICARAGUA SOBRE LA LANGOSTA DEL CARIBE
12. INFORME NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA
13. SAINT LUCIA COUNTRY REPORT
14. SPINY LOBSTER FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
15. ADDITIONAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
16. LA PESQUERÍA DE LANGOSTA EN VENEZUELA
17. REPORTE ADICIONAL DE VENEZUELA
18. REFERENCES
PART III STOCK ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. RELATIVE ABUNDANCE AND STANDARDIZED EFFORT
2. MORTALITY FROM MEAN LENGTHS
3. CATCH CURVES
4. LENGTH-BASED COHORT ANALYSIS
5. DYNAMIC DEPLETION MODELS
6. PRODUCTION MODELS
7. AGE-STRUCTURED PRODUCTION MODELS
8. REFERENCE POINTS
9. TUNED AGE-STRUCTURED ASSESSMENTS