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, 2023, and 2024, a review of the data used to inform triggers is planned prior to possible management action due to concerns that adjustments in survey sampling design impacted abundance indices. For more information, contact Matthew Doster at Matthew.Doster@deq.nc.gov.