The participants in these meetings are given in appendix 1, with the letter of invitation in appendix 2. At the main meeting, the chair, R. O’Boyle, noted that the last time that the status of LFAs 34 and 35 – 38 lobster was considered was in July 1998. [...] There is, however, disagreement on the appropriateness of the boundaries identified by the FRCC and they are not used as the basis for assessment of the lobster resource. [...] The objective of the study was to partition the variation in slopes between the sub-legals and legals using analysis of covariance. [...] Further the method assumes that declines in the catch rate by the fishery are the same as measured by the cumulative catch in the traps dedicated to the FSRS recruitment index which are fished in a fix location. [...] In general fishers agreed with the calculations and extrapolations of the number of lobsters landed in the Bay of Fundy during the 1998-99 and 1999-00 fishing seasons.
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