This document summarizes the 2024 stock assessment update for horseshoe crab. The assessment is an update to the 2019 benchmark stock assessment and extends the fishery-independent and -dependent data for horseshoe crab through 2022, reruns the models, and determines stock status.
Stock Assessment Reports
Scientific evaluations of fish stock status, providing critical data on population sizes, health, and trends to inform management decisions.
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The purpose of this assessment is to update the 2019 Horseshoe Crab Benchmark Stock Assessment (ASMFC 2019) with recent data from 2018-2022 and evaluate the current status of horseshoe crabs along the US Atlantic coast. This coastwide assessment is different from the Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) Framework, which evaluates the population in the Delaware Bay and recommends harvest with consideration for migratory shorebirds.
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Updated 2024
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Updated 2024
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Report of the Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) Research Track Stock Assessment Working Group. November 20, 2023.
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Updated 2024
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Updated with information from NEFSC. 2022. 2022 Management Track Peer Review Panel Report and Atlantic Herring 2022 Management Track Assessment Report.
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This document summarizes the 2022 Stock Assessment Update for Atlantic herring, which was completed by NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and peer-reviewed in June 2022.
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