2025 Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder Management Track Assessment

This assessment of the Southern New England Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) stock is a management track assessment update of the existing benchmark assessment (NEFSC 2011), and follows management track updates in 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2022. In each assessment since the benchmark, except for 2022, the stock was overfished, but overfishing was not occurring…