Description: These assessments report the status of the Black Rockfish resources along the west coast of the United States using statistical population models. Specifically, the information includes a determination of the condition and status of the fishery resource relative to current definitions for overfished status, a summary of available data included in the model, impacts of various management scenarios on the status of the stocks, and recovery trajectories for those stocks determined to be overfished. The information is provided to the Pacific Fishery Management Council and NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service to be used as the basis of their management decisions, which are subsequently approved and disseminated by the Secretary of Commerce through NOAA and NMFS.
The Stock Assessment Review (STAR) meeting is a formal, public, multiple-day meeting of stock assessment experts from the US and abroad who serve as a peer-review panel for the stock assessments. The STAR process is a key element in an overall process designed to make timely use of new fishery and survey data, to analyze and understand these data as completely as possible, to provide opportunity for public comment, and to assure the best available science is used to inform management decisions.
ID: 475 Info. Type: ISI
Start date of Peer Review: 07/10/2023
Estimated Initial Dissemination Date: 08/10/2023
Actual Dissemination Date of peer review report and final work product: Peer review report: 8/10/2023; Final assessments: by 4/30/2024.
Contact Person: CDR Jonathan R. Heesch Get contact information
Review Type: A panel
Expected Number of Peer Reviewers: 4-10
Peer Reviewers will be selected by: The National Marine Fisheries Service and the Center for Independent Experts (with agreement by the National Marine Fisheries Service).
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.
How: The review of the stock assessments the Black Rockfish resources along the west coast of the United States took place July 10-14, 2023 in a Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel in Santa Cruz, California. The STAR panel and assessment reports are posted on the Pacific Fishery Management Council website, at: https://pcouncil.org offsite link
When: The review of the stock assessments the Black Rockfish resources along the west coast of the United States took place July 10-14, 2023 in a Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel in Santa Cruz, California. Public comment and testimony can be given during the five-day review panel which is open to the public, and is broadcast via webinar as well as being in-person.
Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review? No.
Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review: Reviewers have expertise in fish population dynamics with experience in the integrated analysis type of modeling approach, using age-and size-structured models, use of MCMC to develop confidence intervals, and use of Generalized Linear Models to process survey and logbook data for use in assessment models.
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