A stock assessment benchmark of the Guam bottomfish will be conducted through 2022 by PIFSC scientists. The deep-slope fishes of Guam support a small yet valuable boat-based fishery. The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s fishery ecosystem plan for Guam includes 13 bottomfish management unit species (BMUS) that have traditionally been assessed and managed as a species complex. The new assessment split the complex into its component BMUS (i.e. single-species assessments), and diverges significantly from the previous work as it implements the first integrated single-species stock assessments for the Guam bottomfish. These integrated assessments will use the Stock Synthesis framework to incorporate CPUE indices, size frequency, and catch data into a single age-structured model for each one of the 13 species. These integrated models will be used to estimate biomass and stock status through time, and stock status was evaluated against MSY-based reference points described in the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the Mariana Archipelago.
ID: 470 Info. Type: ISI
Start date of Peer Review: 03/11/2024
Estimated Initial Dissemination Date: 12/31/2026
Actual Dissemination Date of peer review report and final work product: 04/12/2024
Contact Person: CDR Jonathan R. Heesch Get contact information
Review Type: A panel (in-person meeting)
Expected Number of Peer Reviewers: 3
Peer Reviewers will be selected by: Center for Independent Experts
Will the public, including scientific or professional societies, be asked to nominate potential peer reviewers? No.
Will there be opportunities for the public to comment on the work product to be peer reviewed? Yes. Oral and written comments will be accepted during designated comment periods during the review workshop.
Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review? Yes.
Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review: Fisheries stock assessment, fisheries biology, and population dynamics
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