AFSC Stock Assessments

•  North Pacific Groundfish Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Reports
  
  The Guidelines for Fishery Management Plans published by the National Marine Fisheries Service require that a stock assessment and fishery evaluation report (SAFE) be prepared and reviewed annually for each fishery management plan. The SAFE reports are intended to summarize the best available scientific information concerning the past, present, and future condition of the stocks, marine ecosystems, and fisheries under Federal management.
  
       - Species summaries and quota specifications
       - Historical estimates (biomass, catch, recruitment, weight-at-age)
       - Assessment archives
  
   
• Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
  
  Report providing information on the marine mammals of Alaska under jurisdiction of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Each stock assessment includes a description of the stock's geographic range, a minimum population estimate, current population trends, current and maximum net productivity rates, optimum sustainable population levels and allowable removal levels, and estimates of annual human-caused
  mortality and serious injury through interactions with commercial fisheries and subsistence hunters.
  
       - Assessments by region
       - Assessments by individual stock/species
       - Assessment archives
  
   
• NMFS' Annual Status of U.S. Fisheries Report to Congress
  
  The Annual Status of Stocks Report to Congress. 
  

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