The Plenary Report summarises biological, fishery, stock assessment and stock status information for 80 species or species groups, each of which is split into 1-10 stocks. The Plenary takes into account the most recent data and analyses available to Fisheries Assessment Working Groups (FAWGs) and the Fisheries Assessment Plenary and also incorporates relevant analyses undertaken in previous years. This page enables you to search through all plenary reports since 2006.
Little is known about the status of blue mackerel stocks and no estimates of current and reference
biomass, or yield, are available for any blue mackerel area. It is not known if recent catch levels are
sustainable or at levels that will allow the stocks to move towards a size that will support the MSY.
EMA 1
For EMA 1, the stability of the age composition data and the large number of age classes that comprise
the catches suggests that blue mackerel may be capable of sustaining current commercial fishing
mortality at least in the short term.