• Each year, assessments of various fish stocks and stock complexes are conducted to determine their status. These assessments include stocks of both known status and previously unknown status.

• The Peruvian anchovy, as an abundant, fast-breeding, and highly mobile species, adapted to living in a highly unpredictable biophysical environment, might appear to be innately resilient to bad management, particularly as alternative resources, such as sardine and other pelagic fish are often available to sustain the fishing industry when anchovy stocks are low.

• Two overfished stocks of very long-lived North Pacific rockfishes (genus Sebastes, Sebastidae) are currently on recovery plans that span several decades, in spite of fecundity estimates in the hundreds of thousands of larvae per female.