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 OUR LIVING OCEANS 



Left: Spanish mackerel; 

 right: catch of dolphinfish, 

 Manteo, North Carolina. 



Transboundary Stocks and Jurisdiction 



Effective management of migratory species will 

 continue to require the coordination of Federal, 

 state, and international regulatory actions. Accu- 

 rate determination of the status of western Gulf 

 of Mexico resources will require an increase in the 

 information base on Mexican catches, their asso- 

 ciated biological data, and cooperation of inter- 

 national scientists involved. 



Allocation 



The division of total allowable catches between 

 recreational and commercial users remains an im- 

 portant issue. Future allocation decisions require 

 improvements in the precision and accuracy of 

 user-specific harvest levels and in the understand- 

 ing of the spatial segregation of the resource. 



FOR FURTHER READING 



Legault, C. M., N. Curnmings, and I'. Phares. 1998. 

 Stock assessment analyses on Atlantic migratory group 

 king mackerel. Gulf of Mexico migratory group king 

 mackerel, Atlantic migratory group Spanish mackerel, 



and Gulf of Mexico migratory group Spanish mack- 

 erel. Mackerel Stock Assessment Panel — 98/09. Na- 

 tional Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Sci- 

 ence Center MIA-97/9H-1 S, Mi.inii, F'lorid.i, 90 p. 



Anonymous. 1998. 1998 Report of the mackerel stock 

 assessment Panel. Unpublished report prepared by the 

 Mackerel Stock Assessment Panel at the panel meet- 

 ing held March 23-26, 1998. Gulf of Mexico Fish- 

 ery Management Council and South Atlantic Fishery 

 Management Council, Ti p. 



I'hompson, N. B. 1998. Characterization of the dol- 

 phin fish (Corphinaenidae, Pisces) fishery of the U.S. 

 western North Atlantic Ocean. Mackerel Stock As- 

 sessment Panel — 98/0.3. National Marine Fisheries 

 Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center MlA-97/ 

 98-15, Miami. Florida, 21 p. 



Thompson, N. B. 1995. An assessment of cobia in 

 southeast U.S. waters. Mackerel Stock Assessment 

 Panel — 95/02. National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 Southeast Fisheries Science ('enter M1A-94/95-.31, 

 Miami, Florida, 13 p. 



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