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STOCK CATALOGUE
Of THE
NEW ENGLAND fISHERIES
fl RST QUARTER, 1971
H. Stern Jr. and ,F. A. Dreyer
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Notional Morine Fisheries Service 8iologicolloborotory Woods Hole, Mossochusetts,02543
Laboratory Reference No. 71-7
SECTrON I
1970 LANDINGS IN THE ICNAF CONVENTION AREA
pr"~iOiminary nominal catch data for 1970 have been released by rCNAF. Landings of all species (finfish and shellfish) from the conventidn area were. 6.93 billion pounds, an 11 percent decrease from 1969. Total finfish landings were 7.58 billion pounds in 1970--6 percent below the 1969 total.
Total ""~970 landings from Subarea 5, the major fishing grounds of U.s. fishermen off New England, were 1.44 billion pounds, which represents a 23 percent decrease when compared with 1969 landings. The only major species that registered a gain in 1970 was the redfish with 36.8 million pounds being landed from SA 5, 35 percent above 1969.
Landings in 1970 by country and areas most commonly fished by U.S. fishermen for six of the more important commercial species to the United States are listed in Table 1. Trends in landings (1961-1970) by Canada, USSR, United States and all countries of seven species for subareas .. most commonly fished by U.S. vessels are presented in Figures 1 through 10.
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TABLE 1
LANDINGS IN mE ICNAF CONVENTION AHEA FOR 1970 BY CCiUN'tRY
AND FOR DIVISIOOS MOST CClv11>1CNLY FISHED BY THE U:'5."
(Landings in millions pounds. Live weight .)
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1"1 Total Country 4RST 5Y 5Ze 5Zw Convention
and Gulf of 4v1rl 4X Total Gulf of Georges Southern Total Area Sp!~cies St. Lawrence Now", Scotian Shelf S1.tbarea 4, Maine Sank New England Subarea ,5 Sub"ueas 1-5
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Canada 189.4 55.7 39.7 284.7 0.1 5,7 5.8 579.6 Germany T T T l' T 226.1 Denmark 100.4 Norway 94.9 Poland T T 1.3 0.1 1.4 109.3 Portugal 40.7 5-.8 46.4 358.6 Spain 18.5 120.4 8.0 146.9 0.8 0.1 15.1 16.0 590.6 USqR 5.6 T 5.6 0.5 0.3 o.e 250.4 UK 14.2 USA TY 0.3 1.1 1.4 16.5 29.4 2.6 4!L6 51.8
11 Total= 316.7 198.0 48.8 563.7 17.5 42.4 1B.1 78.0 2536.0
Haddock
Canada 1.3 12.7 35.3 49.3 0.1 4.4 4.4 59.5 , Spain 4.9 0.8 5.7 0.1 1.7 1.9 14.5
USSR 1.5 T 1.5 0.2 T 0.2 2.1 USA 1.3 0.4 5.1 3.2 lS.5 T 21.7 26.S
Total 1.3 20.4 40.0 61.7 3.4 24.9 T 2S.3 105.7
country and
Spe,cies
.4RST Gulf of
St. l-awrence 4W 4X
Nova Scotian Shelf
TABLE 1 (Continued)
Tptal Sl.lbarea 4
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Gulf of Maine
5Ze 5Zw Georges Southern
Bank New England Totq,lL .
Subare1a ~
Total Convention
Area
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Canada Germany Japan Poland OSSR USA.
Total
Silv~r ha~~
USSR USA.
Total
Yell.owtaii
Canada Romaina
. USSR USA
Total
175.8
16.7
193.1
0.1
0.1
25.6
0.8 28.3
3.6
59.7
361.6
361.7
1.6 2.0
T
3.6
8.1
0.8 0.7
9.7
10.8
10.8
0.3
T
0.4
209.5
1.1 0.8
29.1 21.0
263.5
372.4
372 .7
2.1 2.0 6.0
T
10.0
0.2 T
29.9
30.1
25.1
25.1
T
1.8
1.8
0.6 T
0.1
4.4
6.6
45.3 9.3
54.8
0.2 3.1 0.9
53.0
57.1
18.6 8.3
26.9
5.5 15.5
21.0
O,S T
0.1
34.3
36.7
63.9 42.7
106.8
0.2. 3.1 6.4
70.3
79.9
235.7 8.9 3.3
12.9 167.6 5S~2
491.0
436.3 42.7
479.6
53.1 5.0
19.9 70.4
148.9
TABL.E 1 (Contimwd)
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Country 'and
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4R5T Gulf of
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Nova Scotian Shelf Total
Subarea 4
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Totcll Subarea .5
Total Convention
Area Subareas 1-5·
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USSR 2.5 T 2.6 4.0 iO.4 14.4 16.9 USA 0.5 0.2 8.7 9.4 9.4
Total 2.5 T 2.6 0.5 4.2 19.0 23.7 26.4
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€anada 398.2 75.2 270.1 743.5 11.0 T 11.0 1052.7 Ger~Iany 12.5 12.5 13.4 180.3 0.8 194.5 207.0 Poland 2.6 2.6 0.1 119.6 1.3 121.d 123.6 USSR 157.8 1.0 158.8 69.8 16.6 86.4 245.1 USA 64.3 0.6 2.3 67.2- 67.2
Total 398.2 248.5 271.1 917.8 88.9 310.7, 21.0 480.6< 1699.1
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SECTION II
U.S. STATISTICS, FIRST QUARTER, 1971
HADDOCK
ICNAF management regulations in effect in 1970 on haddock in Division 4X (Brown's Bank and Western Nova Scotia) and Subarea 5 (Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine) will continue in 1971. These regulations specify areas closed to fishing in March and Apri-~ (Figure 11) and annual landing quotas of 18 thousand metric tons (39.7 million pounds) in Division 4X and 12 thousand metric tons (26.5 million pounds) in Subarea 5.
At the close of the first quarter total landings (millions of pounds, live weight) were reported as follows:
u.S.
Other Countries
Total
Percent of Total Quota
SA 5 (Quota 26.5)
1971 1970
3.8
0.2 0.6
4.0 4.6
15.1 17.4
DIV 4X (Quota 39.7)
1971 1970
0.8 . 0.4
5.9 4.4
6.7 4.9
17.0 12.3
Total U.S. haddock landings during the first quarter of 1971. were 4.7 million pounds, about :the. same as for this period in 1970 (Table 2). Landings from Georges Bank were slightly higher for the first quarter 1971 than for 1970; however, landings are greatly reduced from the 1960's. Again this year, U.S. vessels fished eastern Nova Scotia in March (when Browns and Georges Banks were closed) landing 503 thousand pounds for an 84 percent increase over the same period in 1970.
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Landings-per-day (Table 2) and abundance (Figure 12) continued at a low level on all grounds as predicted. With poor recruitment into the fishery, total haddock population will remain at an extremely low level and it is ,unlikely that presen£~quota levels will aid in bu{lding up the haddock stock.
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CHOUNDnS" FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AREAS I') ~ Q' INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE N0!lTHWEST (~Tl: NTIC
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FISHERIES - SUBAREAS 4 AND 5. ~i'i'!~
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AREAS .A.-:S-C fISHING PROHIBITED WITH GEAR CAPABLE OF CATCHING DEMERSAL SPEC IE S· MARi -APRIL 1910-11-12
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TABLE 2
HADO~.K FIRST QUARTER STATISTICS ,-1'971-1970
Market Landings LandingsLDa~
Category 1971 1970 1971 1970
--Geor.ges Bank
Scrod 238 399 247 723 Large 2902 2484 3435 2589 Total 3140 2883 3682 3312
j3rowns Bank
Scrod 101 218 2259 3812 Large 224 185 4581 3164 Total 325 403 6840 6976
Gulf of Maine
Scrod 53 197 Large 653 755 Total 706 952
Bay of Fundy
Scrod 3 933 Large 11 3213 Total 14 4146
Eastern Nova Scotia
Scrod 258 66 4472 3207 Large 245 207 5419 9864 Total 503 273 9891 13071
Total
Scrod 650 883 2413 1945 Large 4024 3642 3655 3150 Total 4674 4525 6068 5090
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14 -(j) GEORGES BANK HADDOCK a z FIRST QUARTER :::> 0 a..
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YELLOWTAIL
ICNAF catch quotas went into e:f£e..ct as· of 7 January 1971 in ICNAF>-Subarea 5. A quota of 13,000 metric tons (28.7 million pounds) was set for the area west of 69° (Southern. New England and Cape Cod Grounds) and 16,000 metric tons (35.3 million pounds) for the area east of 69° (Georges Bank). Discards and industrial landings are included along with food fish landings in the total allotment.
The United States has further defined quarterly quotas for its !fleet in order to preserve some fisliing in all quarters. These quotas can be adjusted quarterly to take into account previous quarters t discards, industrial landings and food landings not included in initial tallies.
1 2 3 4
u.S. Quarterly Yellowtail Quotas ;
W of 69° MT Lbs. (lOOOls)
2600 1400 1850 1000
5732 3086 4078 2205
E of 69° MT Lbs. (lOOOts)
1900 3800 4400 1200
4189 8377 9700 2646
At the end of the first quarter, the following yellowtail catches were reported to ICNAF by the. United States:
E of 69°--2,308 MT (5,088,183 pounds)
W of 69°--3,469 MT (7,.647,707 pounds)
Total U.S. landings for food during the first quarter, 1971 were about 14 million pounds, a 20 percent decline from the same period in 1970 (Table 3). The only area that registered a sizable gain in landings was the Middle Atlantic grounds. The majority of this increase was probably the result of added fishing effort after the closure of the southern New England Area on March 4.
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Total estimated U.S. catch of yellowtail (food landings, industrial landings and discards) for, southern New England;~_:grounds declined about 30 percent in· the first quarter, 1971 when compared with the same period in 1970. Total catch on Georges Bank declined 37 percent for the same comparison (Table 4). 'rndustriallandings for southern New England decreased drastically. Estimated discards were also lower for both major grounds, although the percent of landings discarded was slightly higher in 1971 as compared with the 1970 p~riod.
Discard estimates beginning in 1971 are being obtained from a sea sampling program, dockside interviews and analysis or groundfish survey data. Personnel of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are being placed aboard cooperating fishing vessels, and actual counts of discards are being taken along with length~frequency measurements and scale samples to determine age composition of discards. Previous to 1971, discard estimates were obtained only from vessel captains by interview (after the completion of a fishing trip).
Landings-per-day were generally lower in 1971 than ror 1970 (Table 3). The slight increase for southern New England probably does not represent any significant increase in abundance since assessment studies have indicated a decrease in stocks, especially for southern New England grounds.
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TABLE 3
YELLOWTAIL FOOD LANDINGS, FIRST QUARTER
(Landings in thousands of pounds. Live weight.)
.- Landings Landinqs/Day Area 1971 1970 1971 1970
Southern New England 6291 8660 5950 5727
Georges Bank 4340 7211 4294 5266
Mid-Atlantic 2153 339 11447 5906
Cape Cod Grounds 907 887 3524 4898
Total 13691 17097 5397 5493
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TABLE 4
YEl..Lcw:LAIL"-::isTIMATED CATCH FOR THE '1WO MAJOR FISHING AREAS
FIRST QUARTER 1970 AND 1971
(Landings in thousands of pounds. Live weight.)
So. New England Category 1971 1970
Food Landings 6291 8660
. Estimated Percent i,;.'
Discard 24.3 21.0
Estimated Discard 1528 1819
Industrial Landings 80 732
Total Catch. 7899 11211
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Georges Bank 1971 1970
4340 7211
21.4 15.9
929 1147
5269 8358
orHER SPECIES
Fi-r~ quarter statistics for othe--r-..NewEngland fisheries are-""presen ted in Tables 5 and 6.
TABLE 5
FIRST QUARTER STATISTICS FOR OTHER FOOD FISH
(Landings in thousands of pounds, live weight.)
Landin2S Landin2s/Da2 Species Area 1971 1970 1971 1970
Cod -Georges Bank 7422 5614 6639 4861
Redfish Gulf of Maine 6762 .9152 16620 25931 Nova Scotia 734 321 59750. 37625 Gulf of St. Lawrence 668 1181 11246 40728
Total 8164 10654 34089 21924
Silver hake Gulf of Maine 16 115 (Food) Georges Bank 120 133
T.otal 136 248
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TABLE 6
SPECIES CCMPOSITION (Percent) AND ESTIMATED LANDINGS
FOR INt>¥STRIAL FISHERY t FIRST QUARTER:._:t971J\,ND 1970 ~.:..;;.;::>-
(Landings in thousands of pounds, live weight.)
Estimated Estimated Species' Percent Landings Percent Landings
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Southern New Eng1apd
Eel pout 50 .. 7 2149 53.7 5746 Herring 1.8 76 3.,5 374 Red hake 0.1 3 0.1 13 Sculpin 23.4 991 15.6 1669 Silver hake * 2 0.2 18 Yellowtail, ,:1.9 '80 6.8 732 Others 22.2 941 20.1 2150
Total :4242 10702
Mid-Atlantic
Eel pout 60.1 2463 34.3 367 Herring 4.3 178 9.2 98 Red hake 0.6 23 0.6 7 Sculpin 17.2 706 26.8 286 Silver hake 0 .. 2 9 0.1 1 Yellowtail 4.2 174 16.1 172 Others 13.3 544 , 12.9 138
Total 4097 1069
* Less than 0.05 percent.
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