Arlington, VA – The Northern Shrimp Data Workshop will be conducted April 5‐7, 2017 at the Westin Portland Harborview in Portland, Maine. The Data Workshop is the first in a series of workshops to develop the next shrimp benchmark stock assessment. The assessment will evaluate the health of the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp population and inform management of this species. The Workshop is open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. For data sets to be considered at the workshop, data must be sent in…
Benchmark Stock Assessment Meetings
A meeting held during the development of a specie’s Benchmark Stock Assessment. Benchmark stock assessment development includes three types of workshops and a peer review. These workshops are open to the public and are guided by defining clear goals, products, and individual responsibilities for the participants involved. Participants include state and federal biologists and stock assessment scientists that make up the Commissions’ species technical committees and stock assessment subcommittees and Commission staff
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Weakfish Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted July 27 – 30, 2015 at the Commission’s offices at 1050 N. Highland Street, Suite 200A‐N, Arlington, VA. The assessment will evaluate the health of the weakfish stock and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The Commission welcomes the submission of alternative analyses and models for consideration in the weakfish benchmark stock assessment. To…
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Arlington, VA – The Scup Northeast Regional Data and Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted April 20‐24, 2015 at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The assessment will evaluate the health of the scup population and inform the management of this species. The Workshop is open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. For data sets, alternative analyses, and models to be considered at the workshops, the data must be sent in with accompanying methods description to Mark Terceiro (mark.terceiro@noaa.gov) by March…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Red Drum Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted March 17‐20, 2015 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Brownstone‐University, 1707 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. The assessment will evaluate the health of red drum and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The Commission welcomes the submission of alternative analyses and models for consideration in the red drum benchmark stock assessment. For alternative analyses…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has scheduled the Data Workshop for the upcoming red drum benchmark stock assessment. The Workshop will be conducted October 14-17, 2014 at the Hilton Garden Inn, 5265 International Boulevard, North Charleston, South Carolina. As the first step in the assessment process, the Data Workshop will gather and review all available data sets, including, but not limited to, data on growth, maturation, migration, genetics, stock enhancement, tagging, recruitment, natural mortality, and abundance/biomass. The assessment will evaluate the health of the Atlantic coast red drum population and inform management of the species. The…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s second Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted August 12 – 15, 2014 at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center, General Auditorium, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, North Carolina. The assessment will evaluate the health of Atlantic menhaden and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The Commission welcomes the submission of alternative analyses and models for consideration…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s American Lobster Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted September 23-25, 2014 at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Clark Conference Room (Aquarium), 166 Water Street Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Assessment Workshop, originally scheduled for May 6-8, 2014 was moved to September to allow additional time to finalize the datasets for input into the assessment model. The assessment will evaluate the health of American lobster and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted June 2-5, 2014 at the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center, General Auditorium, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, North Carolina. The assessment will evaluate the health of Atlantic menhaden and inform the management of this species. The Commission’s stock assessment process and meetings are open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The Commission welcomes the submission of alternative analyses and models for consideration in the Atlantic…
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Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Data Workshop will be conducted on January 13-16, 2014 at the Florida Marine Research Institute (Conference Rooms 3A & 3B), 100 8th Ave SE, St. Petersburg, Florida. The workshop will review all available data sources for Atlantic menhaden and identify data sets that will be incorporated in the stock assessment. The workshop will be open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room. The deadline for the submission of data sources for consideration in…
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