The Council will be hosting a stock assessment ensemble modeling workshop over the summer of 2018. The focus of the workshop will be to examine approaches to and best practices for ensemble modeling employing examples from stock assessment and other disciplines within the North Pacific and other regions. Members of the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands… Read More →
Groundfish Management Policy
The Council conducted its annual review of the Programmatic Groundfish Management Policy, as required under the GOA and BSAI Groundfish FMPs. The management policy was added to the FMPs through the 2004 Programmatic SEIS and reflects the Council’s vision for management of these fisheries from an ecosystem-based management perspective. The Council’s anticipation that management of… Read More →
Groundfish Specifications
The SSC was presented with the Joint Groundfish Plan Teams Report that summarized the issues discussed and actions taken by the Plan Teams at their September meeting in Seattle, WA. Highlights of the Plan Team report included overviews of the various surveys conducted in support of stock assessments and ecosystem analyses, spatial management issues, as… Read More →
BSAI Harvest Specifications for 2017/2018
The Council approved the BSAI Groundfish SAFE report and annual catch limits based on recommendations from its advisory committees. The sum of the total allowable catches (TACs) or quotas for all BSAI groundfish is 2 million t for 2017 and 2018. The TACs were set below the sum of the recommended ABCs. The sum of… Read More →
