Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder Operational Assessment — 2017

This assessment of the Southern New England Mid-Atlantic winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock is an operational assessment of the existing 2011 benchmark assessment (NEFSC 2011). This assessment follows a previous operational update in 2015 where the stock was overfished, but overfishing was not occurring (NEFSC 2015). This assessment updates commercial fishery catch data, recreational fishery…