 Red Snapper Update Workshop
Hello All, this is an email I received from Gulf Coast Fishery Management Council (Red Snapper). Please participate if you have the time. I wish Bob Shipp could speak at this event.
Meeting Notice For more information
August 4, 2009 Contact: Steven Atran813-348-1630
Gulf Council will Convene a Southeast Data, Assessment and Review (SEDAR) Red Snapper Update Workshop
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene the SEDAR Red Snapper Update Workshop to conduct an update assessment of the SEDAR 7 red snapper benchmark stock assessment.
The SEDAR 7 red snapper benchmark assessment was completed in 2004 with supplemental analyses in 2005. That assessment concluded that, as of 2003, the red snapper stock was overfished and undergoing overfishing.
The update assessment will use the assessment models and input parameters from the SEDAR 7 benchmark assessment, possibly with minor modifications, as well as updated data streams to update the previous full assessment.
In addition to updating the data streams, the update assessment workshop will include a discussion on age distribution; growth and density dependent mortality of juvenile red snapper; and composition and changes of red snapper in shrimp trawl bycatch. The workshop will also include a review of the data inputs with respect to life history, indices of abundance, commercial and recreational fisheries statistics, and fishery independent data.
The SEDAR Panel will meet at the NMFS laboratory, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, Florida beginning at 1:00 p.m. Monday, August 24, 2009 and conclude no later than 1:00 p.m. Friday, August 28, 2009. Copies of the agenda are available and can be obtained by calling the Council office at 813-348-1630.
Although other issues not on the agenda may come before the SEDAR for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, those issues may not be the subject of formal panel action during this meeting. Actions of the SEDAR will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in the agenda listed as available by this notice.
This meeting is open to the public and is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Tina O’Hern five working days prior to the meeting.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is one of eight regional fishery management councils established by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. The Council prepares fishery management plans designed to manage fishery resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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