Session: Commercial Fisheries (143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society)

8:00 AM

Th-CO-1

Estimate of Illegal Fishing Mortality for Red Drum in Texas
Gary C. Matlock, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

8:20 AM

Th-CO-2

Spatial Variability in Key Life History Parameters for Groundfish Species in the Gulf of Maine
Jocelyn Runnebaum, University of Maine; Yong Chen, University of Maine; Anna Henry, University of Maine

8:40 AM

Th-CO-3

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Sex-At-Age of Summer Flounder Landed in the Commercial and Recreational Fisheries From Massachusetts to Virginia
Eleanor Bochenek, Rutgers University; Jason Morson, Rutgers University; Eric Robillard, National Marine Fisheries Service; Eric N. Powell, The University of Southern Mississippi; Emerson Hasbrouck Jr., Cornell University; Kristin Gerbino, Cornell University

9:00 AM

Th-CO-4

Estimating Von Bertalanffy Growth Parameters From Mark-Recapture Data for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
Lisa Ailloud, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary; Matthew Lauretta, NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center; John Hoenig, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary

9:20 AM

Th-CO-5

Intra-Seasonal (March-June) Dynamics of the Mutton Snapper (Lutjanus analis) Spawning Aggregation Fishery At Gladden Spit, Belize
Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff, Texas A&M Univeristy; William Heyman, Texas A&M University; Brendan Roark, Texas A&M University

9:40 AM

Th-CO-6

Utility of Fishery-Independent Life History Data in Recent SE US Atlantic Stock Assessments
Tracey Smart, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Kevin Kolmos, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; David Wyanski, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Amanda Kelly, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Marcel Reichert, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

10:00 AM

Th-CO-7

Thursday AM Break

10:20 AM

Th-CO-8

Nursery Area Contribution to the Coast Wide Atlantic Menhaden Population
Kristen A. Anstead, Old Dominion University; Jason J. Schaffler, Old Dominion University; Cynthia M. Jones, Old Dominion University

10:40 AM

Th-CO-9

Integrating Acoustic, Midwater and Bottom Trawl Data to Assess Sampling Strategies and Abundance Trends of Spawning Stock of Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus) in the Georges Bank-Gulf of Maine Region
Victoria Price, Integrated Statistics; Hui Liu, Texas A&M University; J. Michael Jech, NOAA/NEFSC

11:00 AM

Th-CO-10

Where Are the Red Snapper Juveniles? Disparate Knowledge of Red Snapper Ecology in Gulf of Mexico Versus Southeastern US Atlantic Ocean Waters
Ryan Rindone, Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council; Todd Kellison, National Marine Fisheries Service; Stephen A. Bortone, Osprey Aquatic Sciences, Inc.

11:20 AM

Th-CO-11

The Evidentiary VALUE Of Observers In Prosecuting Fisheries Offences
Katherine Hawes, Aquarius Lawyers

Th-CO-12

Longterm Dynamics in Atlantic Surfclams: The Role of Bottom Water Temperature (Withdrawn)

12:00 PM

Th-CO-13

Thursday Lunch

1:00 PM

Th-CO-14

Climate-Induced Changes in the Performance of the Mid-Atlantic Surfclam Fishery: Is Bigger Better?
Paula Moreno, The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory; Eric N. Powell, The University of Southern Mississippi; John Klinck, Old Dominion University; Daphne Munroe, Rutgers University; Eileen Hofmann, Old Dominion University; Roger Mann, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Th-CO-15

The Delaware River American Shad Stock: And the Hypothesis That Striped Bass Predation Controls Shad Abundance (Withdrawn)

1:40 PM

Paper Break

2:00 PM

Th-CO-17

Integrating Fisheries Science Into Seafood Sustainability Programs
Thor Lassen, Ocean Trust; Steven X. Cadrin, University of Massachusetts

2:20 PM

Th-CO-18

A Framework Assessment of Fisheries Management Systems: Methodology for Evaluating Conformance to FAO Guidelines for Ecolabelling
Michelle L. Walsh, NOAA Fisheries; Thor Lassen, Ocean Trust

2:40 PM

Th-CO-19

"Effects of Underestimating Catch and Effort On Surplus Production Models"
Kristen Omori, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary; Mark Luehring, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission; Kathy Baier-Lockhart, School of Field Studies; John Hoenig, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary

3:00 PM

Th-CO-20

Thursday PM Break

3:20 PM

Th-CO-21

Re-Examination of Four Empirical Estimators of Natural Mortality Rates for Fish� Do They Stand the Test of New Data?
Amy Then, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William & Mary; John Hoenig, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary; Norm Hall, Western Australia Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories (WAFMRL); Alex Hesp, Western Australia Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories (WAFMRL); David A. Hewitt, U.S. Geological Survey

3:40 PM

Th-CO-22

Does Movement of Yellow Perch Across Management Boundaries in Lake Erie Matter for Setting Quotas?
Lisa Peterson, Michigan State University; Michael L. Jones, Michigan State University

4:00 PM

Th-CO-23

Performance of Probabilistic Harvest Control Rules for Lake Erie Walleye
Matthew J. Catalano, Auburn University; Michael L. Jones, Michigan State University