The Pacific Sablefish Transboundary Assessment Team (PSTAT), comprised of 12 scientists from Canada and the United States, convened 26-27 April 2018 in Seattle, WA, for a workshop to discuss sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) research and assessment approaches. Participants included representatives from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Simon Fraser University, and the Northwest Fisheries Science Center. The primary objective of the workshop was to bring these scientists together to discuss range-wide sablefish data, compare stock assessment methods, discuss concerns about sablefish abundance trends, share results of recent and ongoing sablefish research, and to examine the feasibility of collaboratively developing a set of rangewide operating models (OM) for use in Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE).

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)