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Title and Description:
Stock Assessments of Fish and Invertebrates from the Northeast Coast of the United States, Specifically, Northern Shrimp and Atlantic Sea Scallop
Benchmark stock assessments

ID:   81 Info. Type:  ISI
Estimated Dissemination Date:  8/29/2007
Contact Person:  Rebecca Rootes NOAA Locator

Date First Posted in Peer Review Agenda:  06/16/2007

Estimated Peer Review Start Date:  6/4/2007

Review type:  panel
Expected number of peer reviewers:  4-10
Peer reviewers will be selected by:  a designated outside organization

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?   Paper copies of documents that are being reviewed were available to the public at the review meeting.

When?  The 45th SARC meeting occurred from June 4-9, 2007. It was open to the public and the public was permitted to make comments during the meeting.

Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review?  yes

Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review:  Fishery stock assessment (use of research surveys, commercial fishery data, and other relevant studies to understand past and to project future trends in the population while a fishery is taking place), biology and ecology, population dynamics and modeling (use of mathematical models to describe the population dynamics of actual stocks that are being fished).

Comments on Peer Review:

Note on selection of Reviewers: Reviewers selected both by the agency and by a designated outside organization.

45th SAW Panelist_Reports:  http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/saw/saw45/. Includes Charge statement (found at pp. 35-36).

Final Report also at http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/saw/saw45/.

Agency response, see introduction here: 45th_SAW_Assessments:  http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/crd/crd0711/

Work product: SAW Summary Assessment and SAW Assessments:  http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/crd/crd0711/.