Meeting Details:
October 14 & 16, 2025
Topics:
- Widow Rockfish
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Widow Rockfish – Update Assessment
Reference Material
- Terms of Reference for the Groundfish Stock Assessment Review Process for 2025-2026
- Accepted Practices Guidelines for Groundfish Stock Assessments in 2025 and 2026
- Terms of Reference for the Groundfish Rebuilding Analysis for 2025-2026
- Reference – Prior Stock Assessments: Adams et al, 2019 (widow rockfish update assessment)
- Reference – Prior Stock Assessments: Hicks and Wetzel, 2015 (widow rockfish full assessment)
- NOAA Groundfish Fishery-Independent Surveys: Overview Documentation (2023)
- Stock Synthesis Program and User Manual: https://github.com/nmfs-stock-synthesis/stock-synthesis/releases/tag/v3.30.21
- Stock Synthesis Equation Reference: (Methot and Wetzel 2013)
- GitHub Repositories used by U.S. West Coast stock assessments: PFMC assessments · GitHub
- Groundfish Stock Assessment Documents archive website: https://www.pcouncil.org/stock-assessments-star-reports-stat-reports-rebuilding-analyses-terms-of-reference/groundfish-stock-assessment-documents/