Red Gurnard (GUR 3)
It appears to option4 that the industry’s proposal for 900 tonnes TACC and the Ministry’s proposal for 700 tonnes TACC has been constructed without either party referring to the basic commercial catch data, or doing their arithmetic on it.

It appears obvious to us that the stock is currently below a sustainable catch level, but that might be starting to recover to around BMSY now.

There may be other legitimate explanations why the TACC for GUR3 has not been caught over the past six years, but these are not provided in the IPP.

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