Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee Update on Benchmark Stock Assessment Progress — April 2014

In preparation for the 2014 benchmark stock assessment, the Atlantic menhaden Technical Committee (TC) and Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) have held seven joint webinars and four in-person meetings to date. This fifth progress report memorandum contains a summary from the first three three webinars. The primary goal of these webinars was to finalize data preparations…