Cusk (Brosme brosme) COSEWIC assessment and status report 2012: chapter 15
Mr. O’Boyle received his B Sc. and M Sc. from McGill and Guelph universities in 1972 and 1975 respectively. He joined Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1977 as a stock assessment scientist and was with DFO for over 30 years, retiring in October 2007. During his first 10 years at DFO, he was heavily involved in the development of stock assessment approaches and conducted assessments of most of the Maritime region’s fish resources (herring, capelin, cod, haddock, pollock, the flatfishes, and more recently, the large pelagic sharks). He started his career in science program management about this time, heading up the Scotian Shelf Ichthyoplankton Program, the Biomathematics and Computer Section, and the Population Dynamics Section. In 1987, he became a division manager with responsibility for the finfish research programs and assessment-related activities of over 70 scientific and support staff. He remained in this position until 1996, at which time he became responsible for the peer review of the science and advice on the Maritimes Region’s finfish, invertebrate and marine mammal resources, on its habitat management, and on its ocean management practices and approaches. He became the Associate Director of Science in 2000, a position that he held until his retirement in 2007, and as such was heavily involved in DFO science program management at the regional and national level. He has been involved in a number of national and international reviews, ranging from science program design to resource assessment. He is president of Beta Scientific Consulting Inc, which provides a variety of services on ocean management including meeting / workshop organization and facilitation, technical analyses, reviews, and outreach. He is also an emeritus scientist with BIO, pursuing research projects related to resource and ocean management and assessment.
1L∞, K and T0 are the maximum length, growth coefficient and time at length of zero for the von Bertalanffy growth model
2Nominal catch is the estimated live weight of kept catches that are reported as landings in national statistical systems and submitted to NAFO.
3Determination of the maritime boundary between Canadian and USA waters in 1984 restricted fishing to domestic waters, 5Zc in the case of Canadian fishermen and 5Zu in the case of USA fishermen. In prior years, fishermen of both countries had access to all of Georges Bank (5Ze), and also to more westerly areas (5Zw+SA6) but there were almost no reports of catches in these more westerly areas by either country.
*Appendix 1. Available upon request by contacting the Secretariat at: COSEWIC E-mail
*Appendix 2. Available upon request by contacting the Secretariat at: COSEWIC E-mail
*Appendix 3. Available upon request by contacting the Secretariat at: COSEWIC E-mail
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