River Herring Stock Assessment Update Volume I: Coastwide Summary — 2017

This document provides an update to the 2012 benchmark assessment of river herring (alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, and blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis) stocks of the U.S. Atlantic Coast from Maine through Florida (ASMFC 2012). It was prepared by the River Herring Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Shad and River…