Data Management Plan (Deprecated)

Includes outputs from the various models run in the evaluation of stock status for species managed by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna.

Atlantic Ocean

Process Steps:

• The lead analyst will assemble and save the stock assessment algorithms, documentation and inputs to a shared folder with a defined structure. Interested users could then repeat the assessment by running the stored algorithms on the inputs. A comprehensive read-me file will include instructions for this process, as well as a complete description of the folder contents.

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) stock assessments are a collaborative process involving scientists participating on the ICCAT Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS). Each ICCAT Contracting Party can be represented by scientists on the SCRS, and the SEFSC/SFD/HMS Branch has primary responsibility for the efforts of the United States Scientific Delegation to the SCRS (the HMS Branch Chief serves as the head of the U.S. Scientific Delegation). Participants may conduct preliminary work prior to the official SCRS stock assessment meetings, but the final model runs are conducted and/or adopted at the stock assessment meetings. Individual scientists may be the lead for particular stock assessment models, or a team of scientists may be responsible for running each assessment model type. Although in some cases the range of assessment models to be applied may be strictly defined beforehand, in most cases the types of assessment models which are run, and the subset of models which are then utilized to develop the stock status advice for the Commission, are determined by the stock assessment working group based upon considerations such as data quality and availability, and assumptions regarding the fisheries and stock population dynamics. In most cases, the incorporation of new datasets or new analytical methods into the stock assessment can be considered, unless specified otherwise in the annual work plan for the species working group. Final assessment model inputs, configurations and results are internally peer reviewed, first by the stock assessment working group, and then by the appropriate species working group, and ultimately by the entire SCRS as part of the Plenary Meeting and annual SCRS Report development process. In addition, external peer reviewers are often invited to observe the data and assessment meetings, and provide a written review of the process and final assessment results. Reports of the data workshops (if held in advance of the assessments), assessment meetings, and any external peer reviews are published in the ICCAT SCRS Collected Volume of Scientific Papers. Along with other relevant information and data, these reports can be found at http://www.iccat.int/en/ .

The data will be available from a public web server once an access methodology has been developed.

The data resides on a secure government network requiring multi-factor authentication for network access.