Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Resources - Subgroup South. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 9-18 October 2008 / Rapport du Groupe de travail FAO/COPACE sur l’évaluation des ressources démersales –Sous-groupe Sud. Freetown, Sierra Léone, 9-18 octobre 2008
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The second meeting of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Resources, Sub-Group South met in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from 9-18 October 2008. The Group assessed the status of the demersal resources in Southwest Africa and advise on future effort and catch levels. The advices for the stocks are given in relation to the agreed reference points F0.1, FMSY, B0.1. There was uncertainty in the assessments carried out, mostly due to deficiencies in some of the data available. Catch and effort data were incomplete for the latter years in several of the data series. The working group also noted that catch and effort information from some countries in the region is no longer being collected. Overall, the quantity and quality of the data available to the working group has worsened since the last meeting. This is of serious concern as these basic data are required for the assessment of the stocks and the situation must be corrected in the future if the group is to be able to c ontinue to provide useful fisheries management advice. The results of the assessments show that many of the stocks analyzed are fully to overexploited, and the working group thus recommended that fishing effort should be reduced for the overexploited stocks or not increased for the other stocks, to avoid further depletion. When possible, recommendations on catch levels are also indicated for each stock. Given that most fisheries in the region are multi specific, an overall reduction in fishing e ffort is necessary.