Restratification of red king crab stock assessment areas in southeast Alaska

Author(s):  
J.E. Clark ◽  
S. Hinkley ◽  
T. Koeneman

2015 ◽  
Vol 182 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Oleg I. Ilyin ◽  
Pavel Yu. Ivanov

A possible model approach to stock assessment of marine commercial invertebrates is discussed based on modeling of year-to-year dynamics for three functional groups (recruits, prerecruits, and commercial males). The model parameters are determined by joint solution of the tasks of optimal filtration and identification. As an example, this approach is used for assessment of the stock of king crab on the shelf of West Kamchatka. For this case, the data on actual catch are used obtained from reports of customs in Japan, Korea, USA, and China about the volume of crab products imported from Russia. The modeling confirms the conclusion from direct observations about rapid growth of the red king crab stock at West Kamchatka in recent years. Following to these results, the value of total allowable catch (TAC) can be substantially increased for this species. The officially recommended TAC of red king crab at West Kamchatka for 2016 is below of the 95 % confidence interval of the really possible catch. This value does not account the species stock recovery and hamper rational utilization of the valued natural resource.







2021 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. 105964
Author(s):  
Cory Lescher ◽  
Noëlle Yochum ◽  
Brad Harris ◽  
Nathan Wolf ◽  
John Gauvin


2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Stewart Grant ◽  
Susan E. Merkouris ◽  
Gordon H. Kruse ◽  
Lisa W. Seeb

AbstractGrant, W. S., Merkouris, S. E., Kruse, G. H., and Seeb, L. W. 2011. Low allozyme heterozygosity in North Pacific and Bering Sea populations of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus): adaptive specialization, population bottleneck, or metapopulation structure? – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: . Populations of red king crab in the North Pacific and Bering Sea have declined in response to ocean-climate shifts and to harvesting. An understanding of how populations are geographically structured is important to the management of these depressed resources. Here, the Mendelian variability at 38 enzyme-encoding loci was surveyed in 27 samples (n = 2427) from 18 general locations. Sample heterozygosities were low, averaging HE = 0.015 among samples. Weak genetic structure was detected among three groups of populations, the Bering Sea, central Gulf of Alaska, and Southeast Alaska, but without significant isolation by distance among populations. A sample from Adak Island in the western Aleutians was genetically different from the remaining samples. The lack of differentiation among populations within regions may, in part, be due to post-glacial expansions and a lack of migration-drift equilibrium and to limited statistical power imposed by low levels of polymorphism. Departures from neutrality may reflect the effects of both selective and historical factors. The low allozyme diversity in red king crab may, in part, be attributable to adaptive specialization, background selection, ice-age population bottlenecks, or metapopulation dynamics in a climatically unstable North Pacific.



2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Merete Hjelset

Abstract Hjelset, A. M. 2014. Fishery-induced changes in Norwegian red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) reproductive potential. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 365–373. The introduced red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) in the Barents Sea supports a valuable fishery in northern Norway. In this paper, I examine the effect of the increased harvest rate and the recently added female quota on the potential egg production of the stock. The size ranges of males and females in the period 1995–2011 were recorded, and estimated stock abundance of ovigerous females and established individual fecundity parameters from 2000–2007 were used to assess the reproductive potential of the stock from 1995–2011. The upper size ranges of males and females decreased throughout the period studied, presumably mainly due to fishing. The change in size composition among ovigerous females and functional mature males, and the reduced mean individual fecundity in the stock seem to have had a negative effect on the potential egg production of the stock.





2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eivind Oug ◽  
Sabine K. J. Cochrane ◽  
Jan H. Sundet ◽  
Karl Norling ◽  
Hans C. Nilsson


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