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Atlantic Striped Bass Benchmark Stock Assessment Workshop Scheduled for September 11-14, in Arlington, VA
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and peer review at the Commission’s Winter Meeting in February 2019. For more information about the assess-
Arlington, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted September 11-14, 2018 at the Commission’s offi ce, 1050 N. Highland Street, Suite 200A-N, Arlington, VA. The assessment will evaluate the condition of Atlantic striped bass stocks from Maine to North Carolina and inform management of those stocks. The workshop is open to the public, with the exception of discussion of confi dential data when the public will be asked to leave the room. The deadlines for the submission of data and alternate models have passed. The fi nal step in the assessment process is a formal peer review. This will be conducted at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s 66th
Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW/
SARC), November 27-30, 2018. The At- lantic Striped Bass Management Board will be presented the fi ndings of the assessment
ment or attending the upcoming workshop, please contact Max Appelman, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at mappel-
man@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.
ASMFC Schedules Peer Review for Northern Shrimp Benchmark Stock Assessment for August 14-16, 2018 The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission’s Northern Shrimp Benchmark Stock Assessment will be peer-reviewed on August 14 – 16, 2018 at the Residence Inn Portland Downtown Waterfront, 145 Fore Street, Portland, Maine 04101. The assessment will evaluate the condition of the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp resource and inform management of the stock. The peer review is open to the public, except for any discussions of confi dential data when the public will be asked to leave the room. Confi dential data (see NOTE below)
are data such as commercial landings that can be identifi ed down to an individual or single entity. Federal and state laws prohib- it the disclosure of confi dential data, and ASMFC abides by those laws. Each state and federal agency is responsible for main- taining the confi dentiality of its data and deciding who has access to its confi dential data. In the case of our stock assessments and peer reviews, all analysts and, if necessary, reviewers, have been granted permission by the appropriate agency to use and view confi dential data. When the assessment team needs to show and discuss these data, observers to our stock assessment process are asked to leave the room to preserve
confi dentiality. Additionally, the public and all other
workshop participants will be asked to leave the room during the Peer Review Panel's fi nal deliberations. For more information, please con-
tact Patrick Campfi eld, Science Director, at pcampfi
eld@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.
ASMFC Horseshoe Crab Benchmark Stock Assessment Workshop II Sched- uled for July 31 – August 2, 2018, in Arlington, VA
The second of two Horseshoe Crab
Stock Assessment Workshops will be conducted July 31 – August 2, at the Commission’s offi ce at 1050 N. Highland Street, Suite 200A-N, Arlington, Virginia. The assessment will evaluate the horseshoe crab population along the Atlantic coast and inform the management of this species. All Commission assessment work-
shops are open for public attendance. Time may be allotted for public comment at the Stock Assessment Subcommittee (SAS) Chair’s discretion, but may also be limited to keep the workshop on schedule. Due to the use of confi dential data in this assessment, some portions of the workshop may be “closed door,” for which only members of the SAS with clearance to view confi dential data may be present (see NOTE below for more information on data confi dentiality). Additionally, to ensure adherence to con- fi dentiality laws, there will be no remote public access via webinar or conference call for this meeting. The benchmark stock assessment will
be independently peer-reviewed through a Commission External Peer Review Work-
shop, tentatively scheduled for late fall/ early winter 2018. Details on the dates and location of the Peer Review Workshop will be announced later this year. For more information about the assess-
ment or attending the Assessment Work- shop, please contact Dr. Mike Schmidtke, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at
mschmidtke@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740. NOTE: Confidential data are data such as commercial landings that can be identifi ed down to an individual or single entity. Federal and state laws prohibit the disclosure of confi dential data, and ASMFC abides by those laws. Each state and fed- eral agency is responsible for maintaining the confi dentiality of its data and deciding who has access to its confi dential data. In the case of our stock assessments and peer reviews, all analysts and, if necessary, reviewers, have been granted permission by the appropriate agency to use and view confi dential data. When the assessment team needs to show and discuss these data, observers to our stock assessment process are asked to leave the room to preserve confi dentiality.
In determining what data are confi den- tial, most agencies use the “rule of 3” for commercial catch and eff ort data. The “rule of 3” requires three separate contributors to fi sheries data in order for the data to be considered non-confi dential. This protects the identity of any single contributor. In some cases, annual summaries by state and species may still be confi dential because only one or two dealers process the catch. Alternatively, if there is only one known harvester of a species in a state, the harvest- er’s identity is implicit and the data for that
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