The Council’s SSC held a workshop focused on the current status of coupled biophysical models and their utility in informing fishery management in the eastern Bering Sea and the GOA. Due to the government shut-down, the workshop primarily focused on physics, nutrient, and plankton models, although some instances were noted when models were utilized to inform fishery management.
The presentations and background material for the workshop is posted online, and the SSC minutes provide a detailed description of the workshop and recommendations. The SSC noted substantial improvements to the models since the SSC’s last review in 2014, and noted that this research represents a pathway to incorporate ecosystem considerations into stock assessments and other fishery research.
