Mise à jour sur l'état du stock de pétoncles du nord du banc de Browns (Placopecten magellanicus) pour la saison de pêche 2022

Abstract

Advice on the status of the Browns Bank North Scallop stock is requested annually by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Resource Management to help determine an annual Total Allowable Catch (TAC, meat weight) in support of the fishery. The purpose of this report is to update the status of Browns Bank North Scallop with data from the 2021 Scallop survey and fishery (January 1 to December 31) to provide science advice for the management of the 2022 fishery. This Stock Status Update uses the assessment framework accepted during the peer-reviewed Regional Advisory Process of 2011 (Hubley et al. 2011) for Browns Bank North. Updates were conducted using this framework from 2014–2020 (DFO 2020 and references therein). In 2020, the DFO Science Offshore Scallop Survey was cancelled due to challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This update for the Scallop fishery on Browns Bank pertains to the northern part of the bank. Browns Bank South has separate management measures. This Science Response reports results from the Regional Science Response Process of April 19, 2022, on the Stock Status Update of Offshore Scallop: Browns Bank North and Georges Bank ‘a’.