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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The Board reviewed the results of the stock assessment and the peer review report in August 2015 and approved the benchmark assessment for management use. The Board is now considering the implications of combining the GOM and GBK biological stocks as well as the continued low abundance and recruitment in SNE.
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This assessment of summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) is an update through 2014 of commercial and recreational fishery catch data, research survey indices of abundance, and the analyses of those data.
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The Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) Scup Working Group (SWG) met during April 20-22, 2015 at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) to develop the benchmark stock assessment of scup through 2014.
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This document presents a summary of the 2015 benchmark stock assessment for scup. The assessment was peer‐reviewed by an independent panel of scientific experts at the 60th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop/Stock Assessment Review Committee (SAW/SARC57) meeting in June 2015 with landings data through 2014.
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The 60th Stock Assessment Workshop Working Group (SAW 60 WG) prepared the assessment report. The ASMFC Bluefish Technical Committee (TC) and the SAW 60 WG met February 18-20, 2015 in Providence, RI to evaluate data sources in preparation for the SAW 60 WG assessment meeting held April 27-29th, 2015 at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) in Woods Hole, MA.
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This document represents the findings of an operational assessment of Atlantic herring. The meeting was held April 8-9, 2015 at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Woods Hole, MA.
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In June 2015, the Commission convened a Stock Assessment Review Panel comprised of scientists with expertise in stock assessment methods, length-based modeling, commercial fisheries sampling and fishery-independent surveys, and lobster life history and ecology.
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