Increased pressure or new Response required; recommended action gear sequence: Sampling bias that increases Confirm/monitor F values with multiple F models/approaches Large recruitment pulse No change (if F trends are stable/near 2 ✓ ✓ X limit) Reduce fishing mortality to reduce risk of overfishing Fishing rate sustainable and Response required; recommended action stock productivity healthy, sequence: but stock density at Monitor MPA DR, F and SPR trends and unhealthy levels/ recruitment, gear and behavior patterns approaching threshold Make no change if MPA DR stable 3 ✓ ✓ X Stock density could be low or increasing and F and SPR trends due to non-fishing factors or stable/just above limits, historical fishing impacts Reduce fishing mortality if MPA DR Error in calculations? decreasing, F trend increasing, SPR trend decreasing Potential early warning of Response required; recommended action growth and recruitment sequence: overfishing Confirm/monitor SPR values with Stock potentially nearing multiple models/approaches threshold No change (if SPR trends are 4 ✓ X X Large recruitment pulse stable/near limit) Reduce fishing mortality
2 ✓ X ✓ Increased pressure or new gear Sampling bias that increases F Large recruitment pulse Response required; recommended action sequence: Confirm/monitor F values with multiple models/approaches No change (if F trends are stable/near limit) Reduce fishing mortality to reduce risk of overfishing 3 X ✓ ✓ Fishing rate sustainable and stock productivity healthy, but stock density at unhealthy levels/ approaching threshold Stock density could be low due to non-fishing factors or historical fishing impacts Error in calculations? Response required; recommended action sequence: Monitor MPA DR, F and SPR trends and recruitment, gear and behavior patterns Make no change if MPA DR stable or increasing and F and SPR trends stable/just above limits, Reduce fishing mortality if MPA DR decreasing, F trend increasing, SPR trend decreasing 4 X X ✓ Potential early warning of growth and recruitment overfishing Stock potentially nearing threshold Large recruitment pulse Response required; recommended action sequence: Confirm/monitor SPR values with multiple models/approaches No change (if SPR trends are stable/near limit) Reduce fishing mortality
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