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Description: These assessments report the status of the Vermilion/Sunset Rockfish resource along the West Coast of the United States using statistical population models. Specifically, the information includes a determination of the condition and status of the fishery resource relative to current definitions for overfished status, a summary of available data included in the model, impacts of various management scenarios on the status of the stocks, and recovery trajectories for those stocks determined to be overfished. The information is provided to the Pacific Fishery Management Council and NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service to be used as the basis of their management decisions, which are subsequently approved and disseminated by the Secretary of Commerce through NOAA and NMFS.
The Stock Assessment Review (STAR) meeting is a formal, public, multiple-day meeting of stock assessment experts from the US and abroad who serve as a peer-review panel for the stock assessments. The STAR process is a key element in an overall process designed to make timely use of new fishery and survey data, to analyze and understand these data as completely as possible, to provide opportunity for public comment, and to assure the best available science is used to inform management decisions.
ID: 433 Info. Type: ISI
Start date of Peer Review: 7/26/2021
Estimated Initial Dissemination Date: 12/1/2022
Actual Dissemination Date of peer review report and final work product: 12/1/2022
Contact Person: Carl Rhodes Get contact information
Review Type: Individual letters
Expected Number of Peer Reviewers: 4-10
Peer Reviewers will be selected by: The Center for Independent Experts selects two reviewers to participate in the STAR panel. The National Marine Fisheries Service provides the panel chair and selects any additional reviewers.
Will the public, including scientific or professional societies, be asked to nominate potential peer reviewers? No.
Will there be opportunities for the public to comment on the work product to be peer reviewed? Yes.
How: The review of the stock assessments for Vermilion/Sunset Rockfish took place during an online STAR Panel meeting held remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Electronic copies of the draft stock assessment reports were available on the Council's ftp site. Opportunities for public comment are available during the five-day review panel which is open to the public. The STAR panel meetings are noticed in the Federal Register and meeting announcements distributed by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). Opportunities for public comment are also available during the PFMC's Scientific and Statistical Committee's (SSC) final review of the stock assessment following approval by the STAR Panel and during the September Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting. The SSC's review and well as the Council meeting are open to the public.
When: Opportunities for public comment are available during the five-day review panel which is open to the public. The STAR panel meetings are noticed in the Federal Register and meeting announcements distributed by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). Opportunities for public comment are also available during the PFMC's Scientific and Statistical Committee's (SSC) final review of the stock assessment following approval by the STAR Panel and during the September Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting.
Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review? No.
Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review: Reviewers have expertise in fish population dynamics with experience in the integrated analysis type of modeling approach, using age-and size-structured models, use of MCMC to develop confidence intervals, and use of Generalized Linear Models to process survey and logbook data for use in assessment models.
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