CRD 08-10

Table 3.  Description of the two cases when calculating the predicted total bycatch if the compliant bycatch rates were realized.

Region Time period Assumptions made when calculating the predicted total bycatch
Worst case Most realistic case
Bycatch rate (number of harbor porpoise/mtons landed) Effort (mtons landed) Bycatch rate (number of harbor porpoise/mtons landed) Effort (mtons landed)
Southern Mid-Atlantic all year 0 average annual mtons landed 0 average annual mtons landed
New Jersey Jan-Apr highest annual rate of hauls that complied with the gear requirements (0.3074) average annual mtons landed average of annual rates of hauls that complied with the gear requirements (0.1537) average annual mtons landed
New Jersey May-Dec 0 average annual mtons landed 0 average annual mtons landed
Northeast proposed Management Areas during the times managed winter and fall 0.031 for GOM and 0.023 for Southern NE average annual mtons landed 0.031 for GOM and 0.023 for Southern NE only for years where the managed times and areas had an observed bycatch. Zero bycatch rate for managed times and areas where there were no observed bycatch.  Then the average of the two years within each managed time and area was used. average annual mtons landed
Northeast times and areas not in proposed times and areas of the Management Areas all year highest bycatch rate from 2005 or 2006 for each time/area average annual mtons landed average bycatch rate from 2005 and 2006 for each time/area average annual mtons landed

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