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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on August 16, 2008
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2008 65(7):1370-1379; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn131
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© 2008 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford Journals. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The monkfish fishery and its management in the northeastern USA

Phil Haring1 and J-J. Maguire2

1 New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Newburyport, MA 01950, USA
2 Halieutikos Inc., 1450 Godefroy, Québec, Canada G1T2E4

Correspondence to P. Haring: tel: +1 978 465 0492; fax: +1 978 465 3116; e-mail: pharing{at}nefmc.org

Haring, P., and Maguire, J-J. 2008. The monkfish fishery and its management in the northeastern USA. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 1370–1379.

The domestic monkfish (Lophius americanus) fishery off the northeastern USA is described, along with the management response to the expansion of the fishery and the challenges posed to the management and scientific processes. The US fishery was virtually non-existent in the early 1980s, but it expanded rapidly over the next decade to the point that a management plan became necessary to regulate harvesting. By law, US fishery management plans must include measurable biological reference points based on maximum sustainable yield or a proxy; management plans must stop overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks. For monkfish, the limited biological and historical fisheries information presented significant challenges to science and management and resulted in the adoption of innovative approaches to comply with the law.

Keywords: biological reference points, fishery management, monkfish

Received 29 November 2007; accepted 15 July 2008; advance access publication 16 August 2008.


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