A review of data resources and catch records for Pacific Saury (Cololabis saira) in Canada

Numbers 1-900 in this series were issued as Manuscript Reports (Biological Series) of the Biological Board of Canada, and subsequent to 1937 when the name of the Board was changed by the Act of Parliament, as Manuscript Reports (Biological Series) of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. [...] Concern for the longterm sustainability of commercial fisheries in the western Pacific Ocean prompted the Scientific Working Group of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission to undertake a review of Pacific Saury ecology and catch records, and develop a multinational assessment of stock status to inform fishery management in international waters. [...] Because Pacific Saury was and remains an important commercial species in the western Pacific Ocean, there exists and an extensive amount of literature on the biology, distribution and life history of the species in that region. [...] Concern for the longterm sustainability of important commercial fisheries in the western Pacific Ocean prompted the Scientific Working Group of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission to undertake a review of Pacific Saury ecology and catch records, and develop a multinational assessment of stock status to inform fishery management in international waters. [...] The second report (Ahlstrom & Casey, 1956) provides a summary of the distribution and abundance of the species on the eastern Pacific coast between 1950 and 1955.