Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Acta Biologica Turcica, cilt.35, sa.2, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
The Black Sea anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) is economically and ecologically the most important commercial fish species in the Black Sea. Therefore, a management plan targeting the maximum sustainable yield has gained importance in recent years. The present study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment by using only Turkish data to evaluate the status of the Black Sea anchovy stock and compare the different approaches outcomes. For this, ASPIC (1968-2014) as a holistic production model and XSA (2005-2014) as an age-structured model are used. ASPIC estimates that the Black Sea's carrying capacity (K) is 1.2 million tons of anchovy, and to achieve the MSY of 244kton fish, 610kton (BMSY) fish must be present in the sea. It is estimated B2015 is 399ktons; this shows, now, there are 35% fewer fish present in the sea. Hence, the Black Sea anchovy is exposed to low overfishing. In XSA, the stock-recruitment relationship could not be established. Therefore, the current status of anchovy stock is estimated by Patterson’s (1992) precautionary exploitation rate of Etarget= 0.4 as a reference point. Accordingly, the current exploitation rate is calculated as Ecurrent= 0.5, which is 25% higher than the Etarget. Hence, XSA results also suggest that the Black Sea anchovy is exposed to low overfishing. This result and the other comparable parameter of F of the two models show the concordance and comparability of holistic (ASPIC) and analytic (XSA) models.