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Transboundary Resources Assessment Committee White Paper on Timing Challenges
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2023
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Description:The Transboundary Resources Assessment Committee (TRAC) conducts and reviews stock assessments for the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank region shared resources across the US-Canada boundary. TRAC meets annually, with the countries alternating as hosts, to review assessments for three species shared in that area: Eastern Georges Bank cod, Eastern Georges Bank haddock, and Georges Bank yellowtail flounder. The TRAC’s science advice informs the Transboundary Management Guidance Committee (TMGC), which also meets annually after the TRAC, in its development of quotas for these species. This options paper was written for discussion by TRAC, the Transboundary Management Guidance Committee (TMGC) and U.S./Canada Transboundary Steering Committee (SC) in 2022. This paper presents the current TRAC and TMGC schedule, including data delivery, work product deadlines, and meetings. This document also presents several possible changes to the current schedule that could alleviate timing constraints faced by TRAC scientists. It presents changes that could provide greater efficiency in the TRAC process and in both countries’ post-TRAC domestic fishery management preparation and review schedules. This document is partially based on the previous Timing Options Paper released by TRAC in 2014.
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