In 2016, we began taking steps to address these common critiques of the ESR model
Clear linkage of ecosystem indicators with management objectives
Synthesis across indicators for big picture
Objectives related to human-well being placed first in report
Short (< 30 pages), non-technical (but rigorous) text
Emphasis on reproducibility
In 2016, we began taking steps to address these common critiques of the ESR model
Our response to the need for more formal response to comments:
SSC/Council feedback requested on the approach and all details, memo has specific questions
Summary 2 pager
Human dimensions
Protected species
Fish and invertebrates (managed and otherwise)
Habitat quality and ecosystem productivity
Established ecosystem-scale objectives from Legislature
Objective Categories | Indicators reported here |
---|---|
Seafood Production | Landings by feeding group |
Profits | Revenue decomposed to price and volume |
Recreation | Days fished; recreational catch |
Stability | Diversity indices (fishery and species) |
Social & Cultural | Commercial engagement trends |
Biomass | Biomass or abundance by feeding group from surveys |
Productivity | Condition and recruitment of managed species, Primary productivity |
Trophic structure | Relative biomass of feeding groups, Zooplankton |
Habitat | Estuarine and offshore habitat conditions |
Conceptual model links indicators in the report with management objectives.
A subset of objectives are currently under investigation. We plan to extend this work in 2020.
Spatial scale
This year, we mapped trawl survey strata to Ecological Production Units (EPUs)
Key to figures
Trends assessed only for 30+ years: more information
Orange line = significant increase
Purple line = significant decrease
No color line = not significant or too shortGrey background = last 10 years
Fraction of primary production used by fisheries
Georges Bank
Gulf of Maine
Existing - North |
Proposed - North |
Existing - Mid |
Proposed - Mid |
Existing - South |
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Season | Species | Trend | Species | Trend | Species | Trend | Species | Trend | Species | Trend |
Spring | Little Skate | `↗` | Atlantic Herring | Little Skate | `↗` | Spiny Dogfish | `↗` | Spiny Dogfish | `↗` | |
Spring | Atlantic Herring | `↘` | Little Skate | `↗` | Atlantic Herring | `↘` | Atlantic Herring | `↘` | Longfin Squid | `↗` |
Spring | Windowpane | `↗` | Longhorn Sculpin | `↗` | Spiny Dogfish | `↗` | Little Skate | `↗` | Summer Flounder | `↗` |
Spring | Winter Skate | `↗` | Windowpane | `↗` | Windowpane | `↗` | Alewife | `↘` | Clearnose Skate | `↗` |
Spring | Longhorn Sculpin | `↗` | Alewife | `↘` | Winter Skate | `↗` | Silver Hake | `↗` | Spotted Hake | `↗` |
Fall | Butterfish | `↗` | Butterfish | `↗` | Summer Flounder | `↗` | Longhorn Sculpin | `↗` | Longfin Squid | `↘` |
Fall | Longfin Squid | `↗` | Fourspot Flounder | Longfin Squid | `↗` | Little Skate | `↗` | Northern Searobin | `↗` | |
Fall | Summer Flounder | `↗` | Longhorn Sculpin | `↘` | Butterfish | `↗` | Butterfish | `↗` | Clearnose Skate | `↗` |
Fall | Winter Flounder | `↘` | Summer Flounder | `↗` | Smooth Dogfish | `↗` | Sea Scallop | `↗` | Butterfish | `↗` |
Fall | Spiny Dogfish | `↘` | Spiny Dogfish | `↘` | Windowpane | `↗` | Fourspot Flounder | `↗` | Spiny Dogfish/Spotted Hake | `↗` |
North Atlantic right whale abundance
New indicator
North Atlantic right whale calf births
Seal population snapshots
~75,000 harbor seals, trend analysis in progress
30,000 - 40,000 grey seals in US; 425,000 in Canada and ↗
Seal diet studies in progress
Unusual Mortality Events
Overall fish biomass tracking northeast and deeper
Southern species not increasing in surveys, but further north?
Feeding Group | MAFMC | Joint | NEFMC | State or Other |
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Apex Predator | NA | NA | NA | bluefin tuna, shark uncl, swordfish, yellowfin tuna |
Piscivore | bluefish, longfin squid, northern shortfin squid, summer flounder | goosefish, spiny dogfish | acadian redfish, atlantic cod, atlantic halibut, clearnose skate, little skate, offshore hake, pollock, red hake, silver hake, smooth skate, thorny skate, white hake, winter skate | fourspot flounder, john dory, sea raven, striped bass, weakfish, windowpane |
Planktivore | atlantic mackerel, butterfish | NA | atlantic herring | alewife, american shad, blackbelly rosefish, blueback herring, cusk, longhorn sculpin, lumpfish, menhaden, northern sand lance, northern searobin, sculpin uncl |
Benthivore | black sea bass, scup, tilefish | NA | american plaice, barndoor skate, crab,red deepsea, haddock, ocean pout, rosette skate, winter flounder, witch flounder, yellowtail flounder | american lobster, atlantic wolffish, blue crab, cancer crab uncl, chain dogfish, cunner, jonah crab, lady crab, smooth dogfish, spider crab uncl, squid cuttlefish and octopod uncl, striped searobin, tautog |
Benthos | atlantic surfclam, ocean quahog | NA | sea scallop | blue mussel, channeled whelk, sea cucumber, sea urchin and sand dollar uncl, sea urchins, snails(conchs) |
Female fish "fatness" from fall surveys
Georges Bank
Gulf of Maine
Spring 2017 |
Fall 2017 |
Spring 2018 |
Fall 2018 |
Total |
1980s |
1990s |
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Species | ED (SD) | N | ED (SD) | N | ED (SD) | N | ED (SD) | N | ED (SD) | N | ED | ED (SD) |
Alewife | 6.84 (1.62) | 128 | 8.12 (1.46) | 50 | 6.45 (1.21) | 47 | 7.41 (1.6) | 42 | 7.1 (1.62) | 267 | 6.4 | |
Atl. Herring | 5.34 (0.94) | 122 | 5.77 (1.31) | 52 | 6.69 (0.85) | 51 | 5.41 (1.34) | 50 | 5.69 (1.19) | 275 | 10.6 | 9.4 (1.4) |
Atl. Mackerel | NA | 7.24 (1.13) | 50 | 5.33 (0.86) | 51 | 6.89 (1.07) | 50 | 6.48 (1.32) | 151 | 6.0 | ||
Butterfish | 7.13 (1.59) | 65 | 7.31 (1.45) | 89 | 4.91 (1.12) | 53 | 8.1 (2.7) | 50 | 6.92 (2.04) | 257 | 6.2 | |
Illex | 5.54 (0.4) | 77 | 5.43 (0.51) | 52 | 5.5 (0.52) | 50 | 4.76 (0.79) | 50 | 5.33 (0.63) | 229 | 7.1 | 5.9 (0.56) |
Loligo | 5.22 (0.36) | 83 | 5.24 (0.26) | 60 | 4.84 (0.63) | 52 | 4.6 (0.72) | 50 | 5.02 (0.56) | 245 | 5.6 | |
Sand lance | 6.66 (0.54) | 18 | NA | 5.78 (0.34) | 60 | 7.99 (0.74) | 8 | 6.17 (0.81) | 86 | 6.8 | 4.4 (0.82) | |
Silver hake | 4.25 (0.39) | 189 | 4.42 (0.45) | 50 | 4.19 (0.39) | 50 | 4.55 (0.63) | 50 | 4.31 (0.46) | 339 | 4.6 |
Seasonal sea surface temperature anomalies
Annual bottom temperature anomalies
Slides available at https://noaa-edab.github.io/presentations/
Contacts: sarah.gaichas@noaa.gov, sean.lucey@noaa.gov, scott.large@noaa.gov
The New England and Mid-Atlantic SOEs made possible by (at least) 38 contributors from 8 intstitutions
Donald Anderson (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Andy Beet
Patricia Clay
Lisa Colburn
Geret DePiper
Michael Fogarty
Paula Fratantoni
Kevin Friedland
Sarah Gaichas
Avijit Gangopadhyay (School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
James Gartland (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
Glen Gawarkiewicz (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Sean Hardison
Kimberly Hyde
Terry Joyce (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
John Kocik
Steve Kress (National Audubon Society)
Scott Large
Don Lyons (National Audubon Society)
Ruth Boettcher (Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries)
Young-Oh Kwon (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Zhuomin Chen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Sean Lucey
Chris Melrose
Ryan Morse
Kimberly Murray
Chris Orphanides
Richard Pace
Charles Perretti
Vincent Saba
Laurel Smith
Mark Terceiro
John Walden
Harvey Walsh
Mark Wuenschel
Questions? Thank you!
Clear linkage of ecosystem indicators with management objectives
Synthesis across indicators for big picture
Objectives related to human-well being placed first in report
Short (< 30 pages), non-technical (but rigorous) text
Emphasis on reproducibility
In 2016, we began taking steps to address these common critiques of the ESR model
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