Tautog is assessed and managed in four stock regions: the Massachusetts-Rhode Island (MARI) region, the Long Island Sound (LIS) region, the New Jersey-New York Bight (NJ-NYB) region, and the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) region. This stock assessment is an update to the existing benchmark assessment for tautog (ASMFC 2015, ASMFC 2016); the previous assessment update was completed in 2021 (ASMFC 2021). This assessment updates the accepted statistical catch-at-age model for each region with commercial and recreational fishery catch data and indices of relative abundance from fishery-independent and fishery-dependent data sources through the terminal year of 2024
Stock Assessments
Scientific evaluations of fish stock status, providing critical data on population sizes, health, and trends to inform management decisions.
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This document contains the 2025 Ecological Reference Point Peer Review and Benchmark Stock Assessment Report. Additional supporting information, including the working papers on natural mortality and other topics referenced herein, the presentations given at the Review Workshop, and background literature, can be found at the SEDAR 102 project page: https://sedarweb.org/assessments/sedar-102-asmfc-atlantic-menhaden/ Please note that this report includes a preliminary version of the Atlantic Menhaden Single-Species Assessment Update. The single-species assessment update was revised based on the results of the Peer Review, and the most up-to-date version used for management can be found here: https://asmfc.org/resources/stock-assessment/2025-atlantic-menhaden-stock-assessment-update/.
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The purpose of this assessment was to update the 2020 Atlantic Menhaden Single-Species Benchmark Stock Assessment (SEDAR 2020a) and recent stock assessment update (ASMFC 2022) with data from 2022-2023. The stock assessment update reran the peer-reviewed BAM with a terminal year of 2023. As part of the assessment process, the Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) identified an error in the publication used to estimate the natural mortality rate used in the assessment. The SAS developed a revised estimate of M to use in the base run of the assessment, which was lower than the estimate used in the 2020…
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This document presents a summary of two reports: the 2025 Atlantic Menhaden Single-Species Update Assessment and the ERP Benchmark Assessment. The ERP Benchmark Assessment was peer-reviewed and approved by an independent panel of scientific experts through the 102nd SouthEast, Data, Assessment and Review (SEDAR) workshop. The reports represent the latest and best information available on the status of the coastwide Atlantic menhaden stock and the role of Atlantic menhaden as a forage fish for use in fisheries management.
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This assessment of the Atlantic Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) stock is a management track update assessment of the existing 2022 research track assessment (NEFSC 2022). Stock status for bluefish from the research track assessment (data through 2021) found the stock was not overfished, and overfishing was not occurring.
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This assessment of the Atlantic Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) stock is a management track update assessment of the existing 2022 research track assessment (NEFSC 2022). Stock status for bluefish from the research track assessment (data through 2021) found the stock was not overfished, and overfishing was not occurring.
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This assessment of the Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) stock is a Level-2 2024 management track assessment which updates the 2023 research track assessment model using the WHAM framework to fit a spatially explicit model specified for two regions, North or South of Hudson Canyon.
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This assessment of the Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) stock is a Level-2 2024 management track assessment which updates the 2023 research track assessment model using the WHAM framework to fit a spatially explicit model specified for two regions, North or South of Hudson Canyon.
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