- Title
- Assessment of the monkfish Lophius vomerinus resource off Namibia
- Creator
- Maartens, Lima
- Creator
- Booth, Anthony J
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/123863
- Identifier
- vital:35509
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.2989/025776101784528926
- Description
- Monkfish (Lophius vomerinus and L. vaillanti) constitute a commercially important resource off Namibia. During 1998, the Lophius resource was the fourth most important commercial resource in terms of landed mass (c. 17 000 tons) and the fifth most important commercial resource in terms of export value (U$19.8 million) of the Namibian fishing sector (Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia, unpublished data). Historically, monkfish constituted an important bycatch in the trawl fishery directed at hake (Merluccius spp.), but due to increasing market demand since the early 1990s, a fishery directed at monkfish and sole (Austroglossus microlepis) has developed. The Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has identified the need to develop a management plan to ensure the resource’s medium and longterm sustainability (Maartens et al. 1999). Long-term resource management plans include the identification of an assessment model to represent reality so that the implications of managing the resource in future under a range of assumptions about its present status and its future dynamics (Cochrane et al. 1998) can be examined. The aim of this study was, therefore, to assess the status of at least part of the monkfish resource using a length-based cohort assessment (Jones 1979, 1984, Sparre and Venema 1998) and an age structured production model (Punt 1994, Punt and Japp 1994, Booth and Punt 1998).
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journal of Marine Science
- Relation
- Maartens, L. and Booth, A.J., 2001. Assessment of the monkfish Lophius vomerinus resource off Namibia. African Journal of Marine Science, 23, pp.275-290
- Relation
- African Journal of Marine Science volume 23 number 275 290 April 2010 1814-232X
- Rights
- African Journal of Marine Science
- Rights
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