date:Nov 15, 2013
e below which fisheries closures may need to be considered; the overfishing threshold is the maximum percentage of the population that can be removed each year; and the management target is the population size that well-managed fish populations are expected to fluctuate around.
Dr Pamela Mace, Principal Advisor Fisheries Science, reports that in terms of stocks of known status, 82.0 per cent were above the soft limit, 93.5 per cent were above the hard limit, 82.1 per cent were below the overfis