Application of OMP-2014 results in a TAC recommendation of 331 MT for the 2016/17 season (which reflects a 3% decrease from the 2015/16 TAC). Exceptional Circumstances are considered not to apply. OMP-2014 was developed in 2014 to be used to set the TAC for South Coast Rock Lobster for the 2014-2017 seasons. This OMP was a “target-based” OMP, and as with the previous OMP (OMP-2008) has a median target spawning biomass of 1.20 when simulation tested. i.e. a spawning biomass increase in median terms of 20% over the 2006-2025 period. The operating model which was used to simulation test OMP-2014 is model RC1 reported in Johnston (2013). Johnston and Butterworth (2015) provided an update to the operating model, in order to check the assessment in 2015 was not considerably different from the operating model used to simulation test OMP-2014.