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A Report of the 32nd Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop. Assessment of the silver hake resource in the northwest Atlantic in 2000
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2001
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Description:Silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis) is a short-lived gadid that ranges from Newfoundland to South Carolina. This species is an important component of the food web in the northeast continental shelf ecosystem. In the U.S. EEZ, the silver hake population was intensively harvested by distant water fleets during the 1960s and 1970s with peak annual landings of over 300,000 mt. Since 1980, annual landings have remained stable at roughly 20,000 mt in what is now an entirely domestic fishery. Two subpopulations of silver hake are assumed to exist within the US EEZ. For the purpose of assessment, the northern stock is assigned to areas of northern Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine and the southern stock is assigned to areas of southern Georges Bank, southern New England, and the Mid-Atlantic Bight. While it is recognized that the northern and southern stocks mix on Georges Bank, the amount of mixing and movement among northern and southern areas are unknown.
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