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Sturgeon Benchmark Assessment Planning Meeting
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Prepared for the Commissioner Manual
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic Sturgeon Stock Assessment Update finds that while the coastwide population remains depleted relative to historic levels, the population has shown signs of improvement with a significant positive trend over the time series. Further, there is a high probability that abundance in 2022 was greater than abundance in 1998 at the…
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The 2024 Atlantic Sturgeon Stock Assessment Update is an update to the 2017 Atlantic Sturgeon Benchmark Stock Assessment that was peer-reviewed by an independent panel of scientific experts through the Commission’s Peer Review process.
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The purpose of this assessment was to update the 2017 Atlantic Sturgeon Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer Review Report (ASMFC 2017) with recent data from 2016-2022.
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The Habitat Committee drafted text descriptions of FHOC for each Commission-managed species drawing on information from the current description of FHOC in the FMPs, species fact sheets, other ASMFC publications, and current literature.
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The TC/SAS recommended that the 2024 assessment for sturgeon be an update instead of a full benchmark. • The TC/SAS approved the assessment schedule (Table 1) with the assessment update completed and presented to the Board in August 2024.
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Presenter: Spencer Talmage, NOAA Fisheries
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