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March 26, 2010

NMFS late with new stocks data

The research arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service has missed its own deadline for publishing fresh data on the status of New England's groundfish stocks — even as the New England fishing industry braces for business casualties from hard catch limits based on data from 2007.

The delayed posting of the stocks data from trawl surveys taken in the spring and fall of 2009 was attributed to data and calibration problems created by the 2008 replacement of NMFS' longtime research vessel, Albatross IV, with its successor, the Bigelow.

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Posted at 08:41 AM in NMFS, Stock Assessments & Research |

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