This document specifies the 2014 Operational Management Procedure (OMP) to provide Precautionary Upper Catch Limit (PUCL) recommendations for horse mackerel bycatches in the South African pelagic fishery and Total Allowable Catch (TAC) recommendations for targeted horse mackerel catches in the South African midwater trawl fishery. The basis for the associated computations for each fishery are set out in separate sections below. Appendix A gives the details for the GLM procedure used to produce a horse mackerel CPUE series for the midwater fishery, and Appendix B describes Exceptional Circumstances (ECs) that could lead to deviations from OMP recommendations
