INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC HALIBUT COMMISSION

Reviews of Scientific Report 83

Periodically the staff writes up a full account of the production assessment, intended to contain all the information needed to reproduce the assessment and harvest rate analysis. Previous accounts were published in 1985 (IPHC Scientific Report 72) and 1999 (IPHC Scientific Report 79). In 2005 the staff prepared a similar account of the 2004 assessment for publication as IPHC Scientific Report 83. A draft was reviewed by three assessment scientists, who provided a number of helpful criticisms, queries,and suggestions. The authors revised the report according to the reviewers' recommendations in almost all cases, but in a few instances regarded the suggested extensions as being beyond the intended scope of the report, which was to document the production assessment. The reviews and the authors' responses are posted below.


Comments of Reviewer 1

Comments of Reviewer 2

Comments of Reviewer 3

Authors' responses to reviewers' comments