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| BIOMASS STATUS AND GOALS | |||||||||||||
| STOCK | Roughly, | where we're at | AMEND 9 TARGETS(1998) | MSMC TARGETS (2001) | NEFSC TARGETS(2002) | ||||||||
| Gulf of Maine | cod | 25,000 | MT - total | biomass | 33,000 | MT total | 90,300 | MT- Total | |||||
| 18,200 | SSB | 78,000 | MT - SSB | 82,800 | MT - SSB | ||||||||
| Georges Bank | cod | 37,000 | MT - total | biomass | 108,000 | MT total | 108,000 | MT - total | biomass | 216,800 | MT - SSB | ||
| 29,000 | SSB | ||||||||||||
| Georges Bank | |||||||||||||
| haddock | 80,000 | MT - SSB | 105,000 | MT SSB | 105,000 | MT - SSB | 250,300 | MT - SSB | |||||
| Gulf of Maine | 7.28 | kilograms/tow | 8.25 | kilograms/tow | 8.25 | kilograms/ | tow | 22.17 | kilogram | tow | |||
| haddock | |||||||||||||
| Georges Bank | 55,000 | MT - total | biomass | 48,600 | MT total | 43,470 | MT - total | biomass | 58,800 | MT - SSB | |||
| yellowtail | 43,100 | SSB(2000) | |||||||||||
| Southern NE | 8,000 | MT - total | biomass | 51,000 | MT total | 62,870 | MT - total | biomass | 45,200 | MT - SSB | |||
| yellowtail | |||||||||||||
| Cape Cod | 2,800 | MT - total | biomass | 14,000 | MT total | 6,100 | MT - total | biomass | 8,400 | MT - SSB | |||
| yellowtail | |||||||||||||
| Mid-Atlantic | Unknown | 9.15 | kilograms/tow | 11.69 | kilograms/ | tow | 12.91 | kilogram | tow | ||||
| yellowtail | |||||||||||||
| Dabs | 16,000 | MT - SSB | 40,000 | MT total | 24,200 | MT - SSB | 28,600 | MT - SSB | |||||
| Greysole | 27,000 | MT - total | biomass | 21,000 | MT total | 25,000 | MT - total | biomass | 19,900 | MT - SSB | |||
| Southern NE | 22,300 | MT - total | biomass | 25,800 | MT total | 27,810 | MT - total | biomass | 30,100 | MT - tota | biomass | ||
| blackback | |||||||||||||
| Georges Bank | 8,900 | MT - total | biomass | 2.74 | kilograms/tow | 2.73 | kilograms/ | tow | 9,400 | MT - tota | biomass | ||
| blackback | |||||||||||||
| Redfish | 135,000 | MT - total | 121,000 | MT total | not | estimated | 236,700 | MT - tota | biomass | ||||
| White hake | 4,000 | MT >60 cm | 22,000 | MT total | 14,700 | MT >60 cm | 14,700 | MT >60 cm | |||||
| Pollock | Unknown | 102,000 | MT SSB | 102,000 | MT - SSB | 3 | kilogram | tow | |||||
| MT= Metric Tons | SSB=Spawning Stock Biomass | MSMC = Multispecies Monitoring Committee | NEFSC = Northeast Fisheries Science Center | ||||||||||
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