Benchmark Review of Pacific Sardine Stock Assessment in 2024

Description: Description: The information product provides information on biomass and status of a fishery resource stock (northern stock of Pacific sardine), including projections. The information is provided to the Pacific Fishery Management Council to be used as the basis for management decisions, which are subsequently approved and disseminated by the Secretary of Commerce through NOAA Fisheries.

ID: 485 Info. Type:  ISI

Start date of Peer Review: Feb 21, 2024

Estimated Initial Dissemination Date: May 2024

Actual Dissemination Date of peer review report and final work product: May 2024

Contact Person: CDR Jonathan R. Heesch Get contact information

Review Type: Panel

Expected Number of Peer Reviewers: 5 

Peer Reviewers will be selected by: Pacific Fishery Management Council, and Center
for Independent Experts

Will the public, including scientific or professional societies, be asked to nominate potential peer reviewers?  No.

Will there be opportunities for the public to comment on the work product to be peer reviewed? Yes

How: At the panel review and subsequently at Pacific Fishery Management Council related meetings.

When: Feb 21-23, 2024 and subsequent Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings

Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review? No.

Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review: Fishery stock assessments, fish biology, population dynamics

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Peer review report and final work product: Final work product: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61071
Peer review report: https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/i-3-attachment-2-
pacific-sardine-stock-assessment-review-star-panel-meeting-report.pdf/ offsite link