Background Materials

For additional background information on MSE, management in each region, or other related topics, please consider the following documents. In many cases, the documents are directly downloadable from this website; however, due to copyright laws, we cannot directly provide all documents. Where possible, we have provided links to the document or contact information (via publication site) for the author for requesting the document. If you encounter any difficulties with access, please contact Kari Fenske (kari.fenske@noaa.gov).

Regional NE Pacific Sablefish Stock Assessments and Management Strategy Evaluations

• 2020 Alaska sablefish stock assessment:  Assessment of the Sablefish Stock in Alaska

• Evaluating the Robustness of Candidate Management Procedures in the BC Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) Fishery for 2019-2020 https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40918300.pdf]

• A Revised Operating Model for Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in British Columbia, Canada

• Management procedures for the multi-gear sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) fishery in British Columbia, Canada

• Practical stakeholder-driven harvest policies for groundfish fisheries in British Columbia, Canada. 2008. Cox and Kronlund. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783608001586

• 2019 California Current sablefish assessment:  Status of the sablefish stock in U.S. waters in 2019

NE Pacific Sablefish Research

• Oceanographic features delineate growth zonation in Northeast Pacific sablefish. 2020. Kapur, Haltuch, Connors, Rogers, Berger, Koontz, Cope, Echave, Fenske, Hanselman, Punt. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783619302693?via%3Dihub

• Move it or lose it: movement and mortality of sablefish tagged in Alaska. 2015. Hanselman, Heifetz, Echave, and Dressel. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271715020_Move_it_or_lose_it_Movement_and_mortality_of_sablefish_tagged_in_Alaska

• Assessing the effects of climate change on US West Coast sablefish productivity and on the performance of alternative management strategies https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/76/6/1524/5382129?login=true

PSTAT Documents

• Report on the 2018 International Sablefish Workshop

Other Regional Management Strategy Evaluations

• Integrating management strategy evaluation into fisheries management: advancing best practices for stakeholder inclusion based on an MSE for Northeast US Atlantic herring. 2019. Feeney, Boelke, Deroba, Gaichas, Irwin, and Lee. Available at: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0125

• This WWF page has links to five presentations related to MSE, through the lens of tuna management. These may help provide context that would be helpful to understanding the proposed sablefish science-based research presented at this workshop: https://www.worldwildlife.org/projects/improving-management-in-eastern-pacific-tuna-fisheries

 Basics for Conducting Management Strategy Evaluations

• Proceedings of the Sixth National SSC Meeting in 2018:  The Use of Management Strategy Evaluation to Inform Management Decisions Made by the Regional Fishery Management Councils

• Closing the feedback loop: on stakeholder participation in management strategy evaluation. 2018. Goethel, Lucey, Berger, Saichas, Karp, Lynch, Walter, Deroba, Miller, and Wilberg. Available at: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0162

• Improving communication: the key to more effective MSE processes. 2019. Miller, Anganuzzi, Butterworth, Davies, Donovan, Nickson, Rademeyer, Restrepo. Available at: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0134

• Management strategy evaluation: best practices. 2014. Punt, Butterworth, de Morr, De Oliveira, and Haddon. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/faf.12104

• Recent advances in management strategy evaluation: introduction to the special issue “Under pressure: addressing fisheries challenges with Management Strategy Evaluation”. 2019. Goethel, Lucey, Berger, Gaichas, Karp, Lynch, and Walter. Available at: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0084

• Strategic management decision-making in a complex world: quantifying, understanding, and using trade-offs. 2015. Punt. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/74/2/499/2907904?login=true

• The dream and the reality: meeting decision-making time frames while incorporating ecosystem and economic models into management strategy evaluation. 2019. Deroba, Gaichas, Lee, Feeney, Boelke, and Irwin. Available at: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0128