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Sep
9
to Sep 10
SSC

September 2025 SSC Meeting

  • Hyatt Place Baltimore/Inner Harbor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee will meet September 9-10, 2025. This will be an in person meeting (location TBD) with a virtual option. Please note that the timing and topics may change as agendas are finalized. Check this page for updates.

Anticipated Topics:

  • Offshore wind discussion

  • MRIP FES Update and Overview

  • 2026 ABC reviews: Spiny Dogfish

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Sep
11
to Sep 12
SSC

September 2024 SSC Meeting

  • Hyatt Place Inner Harbor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) met September 11-12, 2024 at the Hyatt Place Inner Harbor (511 South Central Avenue, Baltimore, MD).

Staff Contact: Brandon Muffley, bmuffley@mafmc.org, (302) 526-5260

Agenda and Briefing Materials

Atlantic Mackerel 2025 ABC Review

  1. Staff Memo: Review of 2025 Measures for Atlantic Mackerel

  2. 2024 Atlantic Mackerel Advisory Panel Fishery Performance Report

  3. 2024 Atlantic Mackerel Fishery Information Document

  4. Presentation

Spiny Dogfish 2025 ABC Review

  1. Staff Memo: Review of 2025 Measures for Spiny Dogfish

  2. 2024 Spiny Dogfish Advisory Panel Fishery Performance Report

  3. 2024 Spiny Dogfish Fishery Information Document

  4. 2024 Data Update for Spiny Dogfish

  5. GARFO Catch Data Update

  6. Projection Update (Excel file - “updated” tab is new projection with 100%CV )

  7. Presentation

Draft 2025-2029 Research Priorities Document

  1. Staff Memo: Considerations and Potential Updates to the 2025-2029 Research Priorities Document

  2. Mid-Atlantic Council Comprehensive Five Year (2020-2024) Research Priorities (Updated 2021)

  3. Presentation

Update on Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) Activities

  1. Report: Evaluating Measurement Error in the MRIP Fishing Effort Survey (May 2023)

  2. NOAA Fisheries Guidance Regarding the Use of MRIP Fishing Effort Survey Data (July 2024) 

  3. MRIP Re-Envisioning Initiative

  4. MRIP Re-Envisioning Questions for SSC

  5. Information on Non-Response Bias

  6. Presentation

Discussion on Outcomes from the July 2024 SSC Meeting

(No materials are expected for this agenda item)

  • Overfishing Limit Coefficient of Variation topics

    • Process for new tiering approach

    • Recreational data considerations

    • Tasks and timing for OFL CV sub-group activities

  • Fmsy proxy reference points

    • Black Sea Bass and Butterfish

  • Presentation

Offshore Wind Session

  1. ROSA FishFORWRD Database

  2. New Jersey Research and Monitoring Initiative

  3. Evaluating Offshore Wind Farm Impacts on Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Stock Assessments (Stony Brook University)

  4. Peer-Review of NEFSC Draft Survey Mitigation Plans Relative to Offshore Wind

Overview of 8th National Scientific Coordination Subcommittee Workshop

  1. Final Workshop Agenda

  2. Workshop Information and Materials

  3. Presentation

Other Business

(No materials are expected for this agenda item)

  • SSC Work Group updates

    • Joint Ecosystem and Economic meeting

  • SSC membership

  • 2025 meeting schedule and anticipated needs

    • Blueline Tilefish Work Group

    • Joint SSC meeting(s)

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Jun
27
to Jun 29
Workshop

NMFS Workshop: Peer Review of a Calibration Model proposed by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP)

  • Sheraton Hotel (Silver Spring, MD) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

NMFS is convening a peer review of a Calibration Model proposed by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to support its planned transition from a legacy telephone survey to a new mail survey for collecting data needed to estimate marine recreational fishing effort by shore and private/rental boat anglers on the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. The peer review includes reviewers appointed by the Center for Independent Experts (CIE), as well as reviewers selected by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Councils.

Date and Location: The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. on June 27, 2017 until 12 p.m. on June 29, 2017 at the Sheraton Hotel, 8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20910; Phone: 301/589-0800.

Webinar: For listen-only webinar access, go to http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/fes-c-mrip/ and select "Enter as Guest."

Contact: For further information, contact Dr. David Van Voorhees, Chief of Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS Office of Science and Technology; (301) 427-8189, email: Dave.Van.Voorhees@noaa.gov.

Background

The Marine Recreational Information Program formed a Transition Team in 2015 to plan transitions from legacy survey designs to new, or improved, survey designs for monitoring marine recreational fishing effort and catch. The Transition Team consists of representatives from NOAA Fisheries, the regional fishery management councils, the interstate fisheries commissions, and several state marine fisheries agencies. The team prepared a transition plan for implementing a new mail survey called the “Fishing Effort Survey” to replace the legacy telephone survey called the “Coastal Household Telephone Survey”. The plan requires development of a calibration model to account for consistent differences between the surveys in their statistical estimates of fishing effort.

The Peer Review Workshop will provide an assessment of the model developed by MRIP for this purpose. The product of the Workshop will be a Summary documenting panel opinions regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed calibration model. The panel of reviewers will consist of three persons selected by the Center of Independent Experts, and four persons selected by the regional fishery management councils and ASMFC. The Panel will be chaired by an individual also selected by the councils and ASMFC. The Agenda is subject to change, and the latest version will be posted at http://www.countmyfish.noaa.gov.

For more information, visit the MRIP Calibration Review Workshop Website.

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May
21
12:00 PM12:00
Informational Webinar

MRIP Transition Plan - Informational Webinar

NOAA Fisheries has released a comprehensive, three-year Transition Plan for incorporating estimates from the new mail-based Fishing Effort Survey (FES) into stock assessments and management decisions. The FES will replace the Coastal Household Telephone Survey (CHTS) currently being used to measure saltwater recreational fishing effort in shore and private boat modes on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.   

MRIP will be hosting two webinars to provide an overview of the Transition Plan. Both webinars will cover the same information, therefore please attend whichever fits your schedule. 

Monday May 18, 2015 - 12-1 p.m. Eastern

Thursday May 21, 2015 - 12-1 p.m. Eastern

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May
18
12:00 PM12:00
Informational Webinar

MRIP Transition Plan - Informational Webinar

NOAA Fisheries has released a comprehensive, three-year Transition Plan for incorporating estimates from the new mail-based Fishing Effort Survey (FES) into stock assessments and management decisions. The FES will replace the Coastal Household Telephone Survey (CHTS) currently being used to measure saltwater recreational fishing effort in shore and private boat modes on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.   

MRIP will be hosting two webinars to provide an overview of the Transition Plan. Both webinars will cover the same information, therefore please attend whichever fits your schedule. 

Monday May 18, 2015 - 12-1 p.m. Eastern

Thursday May 21, 2015 - 12-1 p.m. Eastern

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Oct
3
10:00 AM10:00
Informational Webinar

MRIP Question and Answer Webinar

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will conduct a question and answer session via webinar on Friday, October 03, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with NMFS’s Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP). The purpose of the meeting is to brief the Council on ongoing MRIP efforts to improve recreational data collection and to provide a forum for Council Members to ask questions regarding MRIP.  NMFS MRIP staff will be on the webinar to respond to questions.  There will also be an opportunity for questions and comments from any public attendees.  The meeting will be informational in nature.

Webinar Link: http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/mrip-qa/.

When the webinar begins, once attendees click/navigate to this link audio connection details are provided.

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