Anchovy

The wealth of information about the anchovy population of the California Current was used in the prototype management plan under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, and U.S. West coast anchovy are now managed as part of a Coastal Pelegics Species Fishery Management Plan. The anchovy population increase after the collapse of the Pacific sardine was then thought to play a major role in suppressing the recovery of the of the local sardine population. There was no direct knowledge about how this would happen. A broadly based system of laboratory, field micro distribution, and field macro distribution studies allowed description of the anchovy population like no other massive population has been described owing to the work of Lasker, Moser, Hunter, and Smith, their predecessors and their numerous associates, post-doctoral students and under-graduate and graduate students (Lasker 1981). The environment of this species is quite well known for the latter half of the 20th Century owing to the continuing work of CalCOFI(Hewitt 1988) and the discontinued work of the University of California Institute of Marine Sciences Food Chain Research Group (Eppley 1986). The Northern Anchovy is an underutilized species (Shimada et al. 1999, Leet et al. 1992) with a long term potential yield of 120,000 tons. Peak yield was 140,000 metric tons in 1975.

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