The Research Track Steering Committee (RTSC) will meet by webinar October 15-16, 2024. Please visit the meeting page linked below for an agenda and webinar connection details (scroll down to the “Schedule” section).
Meeting Goals
Discuss progress on Research Priorities for the 2027 (Striped bass, Monkfish, Projections) and 2028 (Silver hake, Scup, Sturgeon, and Acadian redfish) Research Track Assessments
Identify Research Priorities for 2029 (Witch flounder, Biological Reference Points) Research Track Assessments
Discuss proposals for stocks and/or topics for the 2030 Research Track Assessments
About the Research Track Steering Committee
The RTSC is a Northeast Region Coordinating Council committee that guides and oversees the research track assessment process and includes representatives from the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center. The RTSC looks at future research track stock assessments scheduled up to five years in advance and explores new methods and data to develop new or improve existing stock assessments.
The RTSC’s primary functions include:
Identifying new research and critical research/data/information needs for future research track assessments
Ensuring that research track assessments benefit from new research conducted prior to assessment.
Monitoring the progress of critical assessment research
Developing annual proposals for stocks or topics of future research track assessments
Considering the need to reevaluate the stock structure for species on the research track schedule
Communicating assessment research findings