Southern New England Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder Assessment Update Report — 2020

This assessment of the Southern New England Mid-Atlantic winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock is an operational assessment of the existing benchmark assessment (NEFSC 2011), and follows operational updates in 2015 and 2017. In each assessment since the benchmark the stock was overfished, but overfishing was not occurring (NEFSC 2015, 2017). The current assessment updates commercial…