International Review Panel Report for the 2016 International Fisheries Stock Assessment workshop

The Panel recognised the very high quality of the research presented at the 2016 International Fisheries Stock Assessment Review Workshop. This included research on Southern African hake and sardine, and whether it is possible to detect the effects of small pelagic fishery closures around islands on indicators of penguin population growth rate. The Panel thanked the workshop participants for their hard work preparing and presenting the workshop papers, for the extra analyses undertaken during the workshop, and for the informative input provided during discussions.

This report starts with observations from the Panel on some general issues for the species / programmes reviewed, and then focuses on addressing questions posed by DAFF (MARAM/IWS/DEC16/General/5), a more detailed technical review and finally recommendations concerning each. The recommendations are annotated by their priorities (H, M, L).