The objectives of the 2025 workshop were to: (1) Age samples collected and prepared from labs along the Atlantic coast for Atlantic menhaden, black sea bass, red drum, scup, striped bass, tautog, and winter flounder; (2) Identify areas of inconsistency that persist for processing or reading ageing structures; (3) Provide information on ageing error for each species to inform future stock assessments, including APE for group consensus ages and comparisons between individual agers that routinely age each species; (4) Develop recommendations to address any problems that emerge from this workshop so as to improve age data along the Atlantic coast;…
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The goals of the Atlantic menhaden ageing structure exchange are to: (1) Establish methods to prepare and read otoliths and/or scales; (2) Determine the precision and bias of age reading data between different readers and labs or agencies along the coast; (3) Make recommendations to improve and standardize ageing practices; and (4) Move bait sample ageing from the Beaufort Lab to the states
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Attendees of the workshop met to go over the APE for each species and results from individual age readers, revisit samples with high disagreement, and make recommendations for following workshops or coastwide ageing.
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Black sea bass, bluefish, cobia, red drum, scup, tautog, and weakfish were identified as species to evaluate for the 2023 workshop which took place from March 8-9th at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FL FWRI) in St. Petersburg, FL. This is the first year that cobia and weakfish have been evaluated by the workshop.
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