Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (32nd SAW), Public Review Workshop

摘要

The Northeast Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) is a process for preparing, peerreviewing and presenting stock assessment information in the Northeast region. A SAW cycle is six months, thus, twice a year, a number of fishery stock assessments are prepared and presented to a panel of assessment experts. The panel, the Stock Assessment Review Committee (SARC), prepares two reports. The first is the SAW Advisory Report; a brief summary of the stock status, management advice, short term stock forecasts and other relevant assessment information for each stock assessed and reviewed. The second report, the SARC Consensus Summary of Assessments, is more detailed, containing specific assessment data, results and SARC discussion and research recommendations. The Advisory Report is presented to the public via a series of Public Review Workshops, described below. Subsequent to the Workshops, the draft Advisory Report is finalized and folded into a larger document known as the Public Review Workshop Report. The Report also includes a summary of any meetings of the SAW Steering Committee (consisting of the Region's executives and responsible for policy and scheduling decisions) that may have occurred during the SAW cycle.