Executive summary

• Main Author: Multispecies Modelling Group
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Canada; Garm; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.214.1381; http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/crd/crd0216/0216a1.pdf

Northeast USA groundfish species. The GARM meeting was competently chaired, organised, and supported by NEFSC staff. All of its terms of reference were addressed within the limited time available. Assessment co-ordinators were prepared for the meeting and presentations of data and model results were well structured. The ability, attitude, and team-work demonstrated by the meeting participants was of a comparable, high standard to the better quality assessment meetings that I have attended within the International Commission for the Exploration o the Sea (ICES), Canada, and the North Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO). The procedures adopted for the assessment reviews follow similar protocols and standards to those used within ICES and NAFO. Each assessment was reviewed in detail, and suggestions and criticism were readily accepted and incorporated into the assessment models or taken forward within research recommendations. The meeting was the most optimistic assessment meeting that I have attended. For the majority of stocks, fishing mortality has gradually been reduced and in response