July 2015

• Agenda (PDF)
• Meeting Report

Meeting Materials

Bluefish 2016-2018 ABC Specifications

• Bluefish Terms of Reference
• Staff Atlantic Bluefish Memo
• 2015 Bluefish AP Fishery Performance Report
• Bluefish Fishery Information Document
• 60th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW-60)
  • Assessment Summary Report – Prepublication Draft
  • SAW-60 Panelist Reports
  • SAW-60 Working Papers

Scup 2016-2018 ABC Specifications

• Staff Memo: Scup Management Measures for 2016-2018
• Scup Stock Assessment Team Report (SCeMFiS Report), Steve Cadrin, J-J Maguire, and Robert Leaf
• Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Performance Reports (Scup - p. 5)
  • Additional Advisor Comments
• Scup Fishery Information Document
• 60th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW-60)
  • Assessment Summary Report – Prepublication Draft
  • SAW-60 Panelist Reports
  • SAW-60 Working Papers
• Staff Presentation

Summer flounder 2016-2018 ABC Specifications

• Summer Flounder Terms of Reference
• Revised Staff Recommendations Memo, 7-17-2015
• Summer Flounder Staff Memo 7-9-2015
  • Supplemental NC flynet fishery memo from NCDMF 
• Summer Flounder Assessment Update for 2015
• Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Performance Reports
  • Additional Advisor Comments
• Summer Flounder Fishery Information Document
• Public Comments:
  • Letter to SSC from Meade Amory
  • Letter to SSC from Virginia Seafood Coalition
  • Letter to SSC from Recreational Fishing Alliance
  • Letter to SSC from North Carolina Fisheries Association
  • Letter from New Jersey Senators Menéndez and Booker, and Rep. Pallone
• Staff Presentation

Black Sea Bass 2016-2018 ABC Specifications

• Black Sea Bass Staff Memo
• Black Sea Bass Data Update for 2015
• Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Performance Reports
  • Additional Advisor Comments
• Black Sea Bass Fishery Information Document 
• Jim Dawson Comments
• 2013 SSC Meeting Report
• Data Limited Techniques for Tier 4 Stocks: An alternative approach to setting harvest control rules using closed loop simulations for management strategy evaluation, Jason McNamee, Gavin Fay, Steven Cadrin
  • Memo: Recommendation for an ABC for black sea bass based on the Data Limited analysis
  • Data and code (zip file)
  • Data Limited Techniques For Level 4 Stocks Presentation
• Data Update Presentation
• Staff Presentation

Other Business

• Research Priorities
• Unmanaged Forage Initiative
  • Staff Presentation
• Blueline Tilefish issues
• Fifth National SSC  Report
• Rumble Strip Update