Schedule for the IPHC stock assessment workshop

Schedule for the IPHC stock assessment workshop

	Stock Assessment Workshop news release
	Stock Assessment Workshop Final Report (pdf)
	External peer review of stock assessment and IPHC staff response This report summarizes discussion at the Stock Assessment Workshop and provides staff responses to questions posed. In conjunction with the workshop, an external scientific peer review of the assessment was also conducted. That report has been received by staff and is under review. It will not be made public until staff has formulated responses to the issues raised in the report and discussed these with IPHC Commissioners.

The links below lead to slides of the presentations.

Morning of June 27, starting at 8:00

Bruce Leaman. Welcome and introductions.

Steve Martell. Objectives of the workshop; ground rules; schedule.

Bruce Leaman. Fishery and management overview. (Commercial vessels and gear. Short history of Commission management: seasons, catch limits, gear restrictions, size limits. Sport and subsistence fisheries. Bycatch fisheries and caps. Present harvest policy: constant harvest rate and proportional harvest. The Commission process. Why the 2006 assessment was kept under wraps until December.)

Heather Gilroy. Commercial fishery removals. (Landings, logbook data, otolith sampling, estimates of legal-sized and sublegal wastage.)

Gregg Williams. Other removals (bycatch, sport catch, personal use).

Break.

Claude Dykstra. Design and conduct of the setline survey.

Ray Webster. PIT tag analysis.

Bill Clark. Data compilation and preprocessing: hook spacing adjustment, fixed and snap gear; sex decomposition; age misclassification; estimation of size at age; estimation of sampling variances.

12:00-1:00. Lunch

Bill Clark. The assessment model: observations, parameters, natural mortality, equations, outputs. Evolution of assessment methods. Detailed discussion of alternative parameterizations of selectivities and catchabilities.

Fitting the model: error structure; log likelihood; penalties; weights. Quality of fits. Retrospective performance. Variances.

Bill Clark. Alternative model fits and model selection.

Steve Martell. Discussion of assessment issues. Selection of alternative fits to be done overnight.

Break.

Bill Clark. Area apportionment alternatives.

Steve Martell. Discussion of area apportionment issues.

June 28, starting at 8:00

Bill Clark. Report on alternative model fits.

Steven Hare. Stock dynamics and harvest policy. Treatment of bycatch, sport and subsistence catch, and commercial discards of sublegals. Implications of the F_35% harvest rate in conjunction with the B_30% threshold.

Steven Hare. Regularizing treatment of sport and bycatch.

Break.

Steve Martell and Bruce Leaman. Summation, reflection, prospection. Possible discussion of alternative review processes.

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