Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 1:00 p.m. – Thursday, May 26, 2016, 1:00 p.m.
Royal Sonesta Harbor Court, 550 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202; telephone: 410-234-0550
Agenda items to be discussed at the SSC meeting include:
- review fishery performance report and multi-year ABC specifications for long-finned and short finned squid, Atlantic mackerel and butterfish;
- discuss MAFMC risk policy and assignment of CVs for Mid-Atlantic assessments;
- review fishery performance report and recommend surfclam and ocean quahog ABC specifications for 2017-2018.
Meeting Materials
Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish (MSB)
General
- MSB Staff Memo: Acceptable Biological Catch (ABC) Recommendations
- Mackerel, Squid, Butterfish AP Fishery Information Document
- 2016 MSB Advisory Panel (AP) Fishery Performance Reports
Mackerel
- 2016 Mackerel NEFSC Data Update
- Mackerel MSE (Wiedenmann)
- 2014 Canadian Assessment Update
- 2014 Canadian Assessment Regional Review
- TRAC Assessment Documents
- Evaluating methods for setting catch limits in data-limited fisheries, T.R. Carruthers et al. (2014)
- A biomass limit reference point for NAFO subareas 3 and 4 Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scrombus), D. Duplisea and F. Grégoire (2014)
Squids (longfin and Illex)
Butterfish
- 2016 Butterfish NEFSC Data Update
- Previous Assessment (May 2014)
- Year-end Butterfish Discard Cap Report for the 2015 Fishing Year
Surfclam and Ocean Quahog
General
- 2016 Surfclam and Ocean Quahog AP Fishery Performance Report
- A Vulnerability Assessment of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf, Hare JA, Morrison WE, Nelson MW, Stachura MM, Teeters EJ, Griffis RB, et al. (2016)
Surfclam
- Staff Memo
- 2016 Surfclam AP Information Document
- 2016 Surfclam Data Update
- Estimated Proportion of Undersized Surfclam Landings for 2015
- SAW 56 Summary Report
- SAW 56 Assessment Report
- SAW 56 Panelist Report
Quahog