This assessment of the Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) stock is a Level-2 2024 management track assessment which updates the 2023 research track assessment model using the WHAM framework to fit a spatially explicit model specified for two regions, North or South of Hudson Canyon.

Report of the Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) Research Track Stock Assessment Working Group. November 20, 2023.

The working group was formed in July 2021 and met over the following two years to address its terms of reference (TORs). This report represents consensus of the working group and includes contributions from working group members and participants.

This assessment of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) is an update through 2019 of commercial and recreational catch data, research survey and fishery-dependent indices of abundance, and the analyses of those data.

62nd SAW Assessment Report

The 62nd SAW Assessment Summary Report contains summary and detailed technical information on two stock assessments reviewed during November 29 – December 2, 2016 at the Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) by the 62nd Stock Assessment Review Committee (SARC-62): Black sea bass and Witch flounder.

A meeting of the Coastal/Pelagic working group was held April 27-29th in Woods Hole, MA. The objective was to produce a stock assessment for the northern stock of black sea bass for consideration at the 39th SARC.