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Director's Report to the 42nd Tuna Conference on Tuna & Tuna-Related Activities at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center for the Period May 1, 1990 to April 30, 1991
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1991
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Series: Administrative report LJ ; 91-08
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Description:The SWFSC’s tuna-related research is going through a transitional period, which will continue through the coming year. New programs were begun in 1990, including those dealing with albacore and effects of drift gillnet fishing, while other programs are nearing completion or undergoing changes. We reassessed and charted a new direction for the dolphin monitoring program to improve our stock assessment work and keep pace with changing legislative mandates and recent developments in the yellowfin tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Last year we also began reassessing our role in providing tuna research support to Councils and international bodies within the new context of the October 1990 reauthorization of Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MFCMA), which for the first time places tunas under Fishery Council jurisdiction in the Pacific. A planning session involving representatives from the State Department, NMFS Office of International Affairs, NMFS Southwest Region, the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council, NMFS Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, and the Southwest Fisheries Science Center was held in early April 1991 in La Jolla. The participants focused on the design of a system to administer the planning and execution of tuna management and research in the western Pacific. A new system was proposed that will, if approved, soon be developed more fully to facilitate NMFS’s supporting role within this framework.
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