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Bajo de Sico

Bajo de Sico. Currently: 3-month closure to fishing activities in the area Current proposal: Maintain 3-month closure plus year round closure to fishing for reef fish and spiny lobster? Or, maintain full closure for year round?. Bajo de Sico.

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Bajo de Sico

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  1. Bajo de Sico • Currently: 3-month closure to fishing activities in the area • Current proposal: Maintain 3-month closure plus year round closure to fishing for reef fish and spiny lobster? • Or, maintain full closure for year round?

  2. Bajo de Sico • Red hind (as well as Nassau grouper) are extremely vulnerable to overfishing due to a combination of life history traits typical in large serranid fish of the genera Epinephelus, Mycteroperca, and Plectropomus (Frias-Torres 2008). • Slow growth, long life, late sexual maturity, strong site fidelity, and formation of spawning aggregations (Levin and Grimes 2002)

  3. Bajo de Sico • Russ and Alcala (1996) suggests that gains in density, and particularly biomass (assumed to be equivalent to spawning-stock biomass) of a magnitude potentially useful in fisheries management are likely to occur in reserves on scales of 5 - 10 years, rather than just a few years (or through seasonal closures).

  4. Spiny Lobster • Comment period ends December 15 for the Amendment, FEIS, and the proposed rule. • NOAA Fisheries Service OLE in full support because:

  5. Spiny Lobster • For the reasons set out in the preamble, 50 CFR parts 622 and 640 are proposed to be amended as follows: • Import means, to land on, bring into, or introduce into, or attempt to land on, bring into, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, whether or not such landing, bringing, or introduction constitutes an importation within the meaning of the custom laws of the United States

  6. ACL • SEFSC and SERO met 9/3-9/4 to discuss Caribbean data issues in relation to ACLs • Currently analyzing length-based assessment methods • Examining cluster analysis for species grouping analysis • Examining CPUE indices for analysis

  7. ACL • SEDAR data analysis meeting January 26-29, 2009 • SSC/ACLG joint meeting February 23-27, 2008 • ACLs for 4 species/species groups (queen conch, parrotfish, snapper unit 1, grouper unit 4) needs to be implemented by January 1, 2009

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