Report of the Consultation on Stock Assessment for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal. Chittagong, Bangladesh, 16-21 June 1980 - BOBP/REP/10.1
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The consultation reviewed the current knowledge on exploited coastal fishery resources in the Bay of Bengal region. It considered the possibilities for further development and tile need for proper management of the stocks which are fully exploited. It also considered the organisational set-up for collecting and processing catch statistics, and identified the problems and the priority areas of action relating to stock assessment. In countries bordering the western part of the Bay of Bengal, the re is a clear scope for increasing production. These increases may, however, be achieved initially only in certain pockets. This situation contrasts with that on the eastern seaboard of the Bay of Bengal, where the fishery resources are heavily exploited. The organisational set-up to collect the catch data required for stock assessment has to be strengthened considerably in some countries, whereas in others certain modifications or refinements are necessary in the methodology of data collectio n. With some exceptions, stock assessment studies employing statistical models have not been generally attempted in the region, either because of low priority or because of lack of data and expertise. Estimates of potential yield have been largely based on various assumptions, the validity of which require to be carefully examined. Development of stock assessment models to suit tropical multispecies fisheries; comparative studies of estimates obtained by different methods of resource evaluatio n; compilation of published information on fishery biology and potential yield from both exploited and exploitable stocks for critical evaluation and interpretation -all these were steps considered necessary for estimating the abundance of coastal fishery resources