Download FAR 2015/41 Update of data inputs for assessment of OEO 3A black oreo in 2012–13

This report presents results of standardised catch per unit effort analyses, as well as estimates of absolute abundance for black oreo from the 1997, 2002, 2006 and 2011 research acoustic surveys, a revised catch history, and length frequency distributions derived from the acoustic survey and commercial observer programmes. Data were for the years up to the 2011–12 fishing year.