ML072060601

NOAA - Status of Fishery Resource Off the Northeastern United States

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' Status of Fishery Resources off the Northeastern US Page I of 2 Status of Fishery Resources off the Northeastern United States NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center Resource Evaluation and Assessment Division Population Dynamics Branch .!

(Edited by- Ralph Mayo, Fred Serchuk and Elizabeth Holmes)

Prin-ipal GroUndfish Flounders Other Groundfish Principal Pelagics Other Fish Invertebrates Anadromous Fish Information Contents T

Acknowledgements his website was established in 1998 to provide a convenient, up-to-date source of .... .. .........

information on the status of fishery resources off the northeast coast of the U.S. Search Document Introduction The initial version of the website was as reported in NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-115,"Status of Fishery Resources off the Northeastern Aggregate United States for 1998," Beginning in January of 2000, NEFSC scientists began NEFSC Main Page Resource revisions to species synopses and other chapters. These revisions have in most

& Landings Trends cases been posted on the website and will be further revised as new information is Resource made available. Latest revision dates are as indicated on the species synopses Evaluation and Species Synopses and other chapters (see main page and species list), and links are provided to IAssessment earlier versions and to relevant documents or advisories posted elsewhere. Division Articles on fishery economics and other fishery-related topics will be posted as Species List they become available.

Population Dynamics Retired Sections Branch The NEFSC develops assessments for 62 finfish and invertebrate species stocks Archive in cooperation with other federal and state agencies and academic institutions.

Assessments are completed using a variety of models and data sources; but they Species fall under two broad categories, these being detailed or "benchmark" assessments Responsibilities.

and "updates". The former may be of a pioneering nature, incorporating new or Additional Links revised analytical techniques and /or including several additional years of data.

and would normally be subject to peer review through established fora such as the Additional Links Sustainable Fisheries Act Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) process or the Transboundary Resources Assessment Committee (TRAC). Updates, in contrast, are done using previously peer-reviewed data sources and methods and are often Recreational Fishery Transboundary Resource Statistics Assessment Committee not subjected to peer review.

(TRAC) Reports 2005 Report to Congress on Timing and character of assessments are driven by management needs, which Status of the Resources Transboundary vary from year to year due to many factors including fishery conditions, data Management Guidance availability and legislative mnandates. Scientists from Canada and the USA Committee (TMGC) Reports complete assessments for stocks of interest to both countries each spring for Report on the condition of http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/sos/ 7/3/2007 C-4 -L HMIPS -LO05at

Status of Fishery Resources off the Northeastern US Page 2 of 2 subsequent peer review by the TRAC each June; and SAW working groups the sea fisheries of the south New England Fishery typically complete assessments for peer review by the SAW Stock Assessment coast of New England. by Management Council Review Committee (SARC) in June and November. Annual updates for other S.F. Baird, 1872 groundfish and invertebrate stocks are also completed by SAW working groups or Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Technical Committees. The fisheries and fishery Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council industries of the US By G.8 For further information Goode, 1884.

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Groundfish Clark, S.H., ed. 1998. Status of fishery resources off the Northeastern United Fishes of the Gulf of Maine States for 1998. NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] Tech. by H.B. Bigelow and W,C.

Memo. NMFS-NE-115. 149p. Schroeder, 1953.

US/Canada Resource Sharing Monitoring The Raymond J. Beverton Woods Hole Lectures. 1994.

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Managemeni Act Maturation of Nineteen NEFSC does not guarantee the validity of information on, or endorse any products Species of Finfish off the NE or political positions associated with external websites that we link to in this document. coast of the US, 1985-1990.

www.ne s c, no. ) gov Search Disclaime NJvIASTER .irivcy Poll y (Modified Jun 12 2007) http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/sos/ 7/3/2007