An outline of the primary objective for hake discussions during the 2014 International Stock Assessment Review Workshop

This outline provides a broad summary, with illustrations, of the four sequential steps to be taken in in developing the output desired from the International Workshop in specifying models to be implemented for the joint assessment of the hake resources off South Africa and Namibia. These are: i) finalise the broad stock structure hypotheses to form the basis for these assessment models; ii) specify the spatio temporal framework for these models; iii) confirm the data to be used in fitting these models; and iv) specify the dynamics of and fitting criteria for these models in detail to the extent that time permits.