ARLINGTON, Va., — November 18, 2013 — The following was released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission:
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Stock Assessment Data Workshop will be conducted on January 13-16, 2014 at the Florida Marine Research Institute (Conference Rooms 3A & 3B), 100 8th Ave SE, St. Petersburg, Florida. The workshop will review all available data sources for Atlantic menhaden and identify data sets that will be incorporated in the stock assessment. The workshop will be open to the public, with the exception of discussions of confidential data, when the public will be asked to leave the room.
The Stock Assessment Workshop will be conducted in the summer (date and location to be determined), with the peer review scheduled for December 2014 through the SouthEast Data, Assessment and Review process. For more information, please contact Michael Waine, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at mwaine@asmfc.org or 703.842.0740.