Starts May 15, 2018 9:00 am
Ends May 17, 2018 5:00 pm
Location Renaissance Providence-Downtown, Providence, Rhode Island
Information:Email: mappelman@asmfc.org The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Stock Assessment Modeling Workshop will be conducted May 15-17, 2018 at the Renaissance Providence-Downtown, in Providence, Rhode Island. The assessment will evaluate the condition of Atlantic striped bass stocks from Maine to North Carolina and inform management of those stocks. The workshop is open to the public, with the exception of discussion of confidential data when the public will be asked to leave the room. For alternate models to be considered, the model description, model input, and complete source code must be provided to Dr. Katie Drew, Stock Assessment Team Leader, at kdrew@asmfc.org by April 30, 2018. Any models submitted without complete, editable source code and input files will not be considered. The benchmark stock assessment is scheduled for peer-review at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s 66th Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW/SARC), November 27-30, 2018. For more information about the assessment, or the submission and presentation of materials at the Modeling Workshop, please contact Max Appelman, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at mappelman@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.Description