Recommendations on rock lobster TACs for Tristan rock lobster Jasus tristani, at Tristan and Nightingale islands for the 2023/24 season

OMPs are the agreed basis to recommend rock lobster TACs for all four islands of the Tristan da Cunha Group. The application of these OMPs using the most recent CPUE and survey data for input into the various OMPs result in the following TAC recommendations for the 2024/25 season:

• The OMP for Tristan recommends a TAC for 2024 of 131 MT (2023 TAC 125 MT).

• The OMP for Nightingale recommends a TAC for 2024 of 95 MT (2023 TAC 95 MT).

If an overcatch of more than 0.5 MT is taken at an island in a given season, that amount is to be taken off the TAC allocated for the following season. Thus a 0.85 MT overcatch at Nightingale in the 2023 season must be removed from the allocated Nightingale TAC for the 2024 season as indicated above.