Profile updated on 12 January 2024
SUMMARY
SUMMARY
IDENTIFICATION
SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)
Sardinops sagax
SPECIES NAME(s)
Pacific sardine, Australian pilchard, California pilchard, Japanese pilchard, Southern African pilchard, South American pilchard
COMMON NAMES
cold stock, California Current population
The Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) North-East Pacific stock is distributed throughout Southeastern Alaska to Baja California, Mexico. The resource is annually assessed in support of the Pacific Fishery Management Council's (PFMC) process. The stock is structured in various sub-populations, and assessed entirely as one North Pacific sub-population (NPS) stock which covers US Pacific (California, Oregon, Washington), Canada (British Columbia) and Mexico.
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ANALYSIS
- The latest stock assessment incorporated new age compositions which helps strengthen the update assessment estimates (Kuriyama et al., 2022).
- Landings from the Mexican fishery are available in the latest update (NOAA, 2022).
SCORES
Management Quality:
< 6
< 6
< 6
