2022 Butterfish Fishery Performance Report - MSB Advisory Panel Comment Form

Please use the following form to provide input focused on the 2021 butterfish fishery. There is also one question at the end regarding the Illex fishery. Before completing the form, the following documents, especially the 2022 Butterfish Fishery Information Document, may be useful to review:

The recent butterfish assessment found the stock was neither overfished nor experiencing overfishing in 2021. While we won’t know the ABC for 2023 until after the July SSC meeting, based on the assessment results and the Council’s risk policy, we’re not anticipating major ABC changes versus recent years. But that’s just a preliminary sense of things, not definite.

Thanks again for taking the time to complete the questions below by Wednesday July 13, 2022.

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1. What factors have influenced recent butterfish catch (general, markets, environment, regulations, other, etc.)?

2. Are the current butterfish fishery regulations appropriate? How could they be improved?

3. What would you recommend as butterfish research priorities?

4. What else is important for the Council to know about butterfish?

5. The Illex Fishery Performance Report for the 2021 fishery was completed earlier this year and can be found in the documents linked above. This report will be provided to the SSC as it sets a preliminary 2023 Illex quota in July. We don’t have much more information now compared to when the SSC set the 2022 ABC back in March 2022, but we will have the research track peer review summary and some information about the 2022 Illex fishery, which has started slowly. The plan is that in March 2023 the SSC will review an update of the various indirect methods developed through the assessment (and used to set the 2022 ABC at 40,000 MT), and then set a final 2023 Illex ABC at that time. If there’s anything you’d like to add regarding the 2021 or 2022 Illex fisheries, or anything else for the SSC to consider as it sets a preliminary 2023 Illex ABC, please do so here.

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