The Working Group (WG) of the Northeast Trawl Advisory Panel (NTAP) and NTAP as a whole met on Tuesday, June 19, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

• Meeting Summary

Meeting Materials

• Meeting Agenda

• March 5 NTAP Working Group Summary

Presentations

• 2018 Spring Bottom Trawl Survey Summary

• To calibrate or not to calibrate, that is the question?

• What is this q exactly? Getting our terminology straight

• Incorporating efficiency experiment results and netspread issues

• Evaluation of Bigelow Spread Related Gear Performance Metric

• Options for Deobligated Funds

• Developing NTAP Research Work Plan and Priorities

The purpose of the WG meeting is to:

1. review options and recommend preferred research plan for re-obligating industry vessel sea days funds (Nobska),

2. develop workplan for FY18-20,

3. define criteria for Bigelow trawl gear performance, and

4. describe potential flume tank experiments.

The purpose of the NTAP as a whole meeting is to:

1. review updates on the revised NTAP charter and Bigelow operations,

2. review, adopt or revise NTAP WG recommendations from last meeting,

3. review the status of summer flounder catchability and gear performance analyses,

4. review a briefing on the Bigelow/Albatross time series,

5. adopt a regular meeting schedule for full NTAP and WG, and

6. cover other business.

For additional information about the NTAP and details from past meetings, visit http://www.mafmc.org/ntap