Kingfishes Management Information

Kingfishes Annual Update

A stock assessment is not available due to lack of migration data, so an annual trend analysis with management triggers is used to monitor the stock. Due to impacts from Covid-19, a complete trend analysis was unavailable for 2020 and 2021. Although two or more management triggers were activated in 2022 and 2023, a review of the data used to inform triggers is planned prior to possible management action due to concerns that adjustments in sampling design were impacting abundance indices.