CRD 08-10

Table 1.  By region and over all three Gulf of Maine management areas, the number of observed hauls, takes and landings (obs landings) and the resulting bycatch rate (number of harbor porpoise takes/mton of landings) of hauls that had all of the required number of pingers and were observed from 1 January 1999–31 May 2007.

Year Massachusetts Bay MidCoast
Number of hauls
Number of takes
Obs landings
Bycatch rate
Number of hauls
Number of takes
Obs landings
Bycatch rate
1999 59 0 5.35 0 232 3 65.50 0.046
2000 115 0 16.77 0 198 0 15.88 0.000
2001 74 0 7.00 0 109 2 21.29 0.094
2002 8 0 0.62 0 199 2 30.15 0.066
2003 8 0 0.94 0 40 0 4.46 0.000
2004 3 0 0.23 0 49 0 11.33 0.000
2005 4 0 4.59 0 134 1 29.30 0.034
2006 29 0 5.70 0 87 0 17.77 0.000
2007* 53 0 5.70 0 9 0 0.29 0.000
TOTAL 353 0 46.90 0 1057 8 195.97 0.041
 
Year Stellwagen Bank ALL
Number of hauls
Number of takes
Obs landings
Bycatch rate
Number of hauls
Number of takes
Obs landings
Bycatch rate
1999 10 0 0.56 0 301 3 71.41 0.042
2000 1 0 0.04 0 314 0 32.69 0.000
2001 1 0 0.02 0 184 2 28.31 0.071
2002 1 0 0.38 0 208 2 31.15 0.064
2003 1 0 0.10 0 49 0 5.50 0.000
2004 6 0 0.95 0 58 0 12.51 0.000
2005 10 0 2.83 0 148 1 36.72 0.027
2006 9 0 2.16 0 125 0 25.63 0.000
2007* 79 0 7.38 0 141 0 13.37 0.000
TOTAL 118 0 14.42 0 1528 8 257.29 0.031
* Data in this row only from 1 January through 31 May 2007.

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