1 SARC 45 – Assessments of Gulf of Maine Northern Shrimp and Atlantic Sea Scallop

past assessments of both stocks and materials prepared for the present assessment, to be placed on a dedicated website. All documents on that site were downloaded and read. In addition, references on the two key assessment models – CSA for Northern Shrimp and CASA for Atlantic Sea Scallop – were con...

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Summary:past assessments of both stocks and materials prepared for the present assessment, to be placed on a dedicated website. All documents on that site were downloaded and read. In addition, references on the two key assessment models – CSA for Northern Shrimp and CASA for Atlantic Sea Scallop – were consulted for details of those analytical methods. SARC 45 was conducted from June 4-9, 2007, chaired by Dr. Mike Prager. Presentations were made by the Northern Scallop team on June 4, and the Atlantic Sea Scallop team on June 5. Questions and discussion during and following the presentations led to requests to both teams for additional information. The additional material was presented and discussed on June 6. The assessment reports prepared by the two assessment teams were also reviewed with the teams, and the reviewers and NMFS staff provided suggestions for revisions to the two documents. The remainder of the review period was spent in preparing the SARC 45 Summary Document (Dr. Prager as drafter of the document) and starting the independent reports by the three CIE reviewers, J.-J. Maguire, N. Caputi, and myself. I was assigned to be lead reviewer for the Northern Shrimp, and in the following commentary, my observations on that assessment are