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12/20/2024 | Press release | Archived content

Stock Assessment of Uku (Aprion virescens) in Hawaii, 2024 Update

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Stock Assessment of Uku (Aprion virescens) in Hawaii, 2024 Update

December 20, 2024

Presenting the updated stock assessment of the ukupalu snapper, commonly known as "uku," in the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), covering the period from 1948 to 2023.

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The current assessment is an update to the 2020 benchmark, adding 5 years (2019-2023) of catch, catch-per-unit-effort, and size data, and an extra year of fishery-independent diver surveys (2019). The only change to the modeling approach was to implement correction factors for the recreational catches related to the decline of phone landlines between 2003 and 2016, as done in the recent Deep-7 assessment (Syslo et al., 2024).

The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service uses the NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC series to disseminate scientific and technical information that has been scientifically reviewed and edited. Documents within this series reflect sound professional work and may be referenced in the formal scientific and technical literature.

Nadon, MO2024. Stock Assessment of Uku (Aprion virescens) in Hawai?i, 2024 Update U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-171, 114 p.
https://doi.org/10.25923/bsmz-zv87

Last updated by Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center on 12/30/2024