This paper provides updated assessments of the rock lobster resources at Inaccessible and Gough islands. These assessments include updated data from the commercial fishery, and are also extended to fit to data from Leg1 of the annual biomass surveys. Projections at the current TAC values (70 MT for Inaccessible and 95 MT for Gough) do not indicate any concern with respect to future spawning biomass or catch rate trends.
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Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town