Assessment of the cod stock in NAFO Division 3M

39 páginas, 27 figuras, 21 tablas.-- Scientific council meetingAn assessment of the cod stock in NAFO Division 3M is performed. A Bayesian model, as used in the last assessments, was used to perform the analysis. Results indicat e a fairly substantial increase in SSB, reaching a value well above B lim . The six-years retrospective plot shows that the r ecruitment is overestimated every year. Three year projections indicate that fishing at the F statusquo level should allow SSB to increase slowly, although abundance will remain at levels below those observed at the beginning of the series. If the fishing mortality were return to the levels seen before 1995, stock recovery would become improbablPeer reviewe