Report of the FAO working group on the assessment of small pelagic fish off Northwest Africa Agadir, Morocco, 17-26 April 2007 Coll. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture report, Vol. 849

The Group assessed the status of the small pelagic resources in Northwest Africa and make projections on the development of the status of the stocks and on future effort and catch levels. As a precautionary measure, the catch level for this species should not exceed the average over the last three years of 115 000 tonnes. For bonga, the recommendation from 2006 is maintained as no new information is available on this species, and the Working Group recommended that the catch level should not exceed 42 000 tonnes.