OUTLINE
Biomass Apportionment Workshop II
April 29-30, 2009
[printable version]

DAY 1 - 0900

  1. Introduction
  2. Goals of Workshop - Bruce 10 min
  3. Presentation of widget development and scenarios from 1st workshop and Annual Meeting. - Juan 30 minutes
  4. Apportionment methodology
    1. Criteria for consideration - Bruce 10 min
    2. Performance evaluation: Ebio levels, SBio (B30, B40, etc.), target harvest rate - background, importance in management - Steven 20 min. - DISCUSSION
    3. Impact on age composition and regional contribution, RV - Bruce 20 min - DISCUSSION
  5. Candidate methods
    1. Survey-based/target harvest rate, methodology, characteristics and assumptions - Steven 10 min - DISCUSSION
    2. Historical catch shares, characteristics and assumptions - Bruce - 10 min - DISCUSSION
    3. Alternate method?
  6. Evaluation process - Bruce - 10 min
    1. Simulation of dynamics with widget
    2. Report card relative to criteria identified in 4 - DISCUSSION

BREAK

  1. Simulation of dynamics and harvest with updated and revised widget
    1. Introduction of widget: assumptions, state parameters, dynamics, output - Juan 30 min - DISCUSSION
    2. Simulation of application of harvest and migration rates - THIS SECTION INTERACTIVE
      1. Baseline zero harvest scenario
      2. Target harvest rate (i.e., survey apportionment)

LUNCH

  1. Historical catch shares
  2. Other
  1. Iteration and refinement

DAY 2 - 0900

  1. Review of Day 1 results - Bruce 20 min
  2. DISCUSSION of alternate scenarios and additional widget runs
  3. Building the Report Card
  4. Preferred alternative

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