Proceedings of the PSARC Invertebrate Subcommittee Meeting : Compte rendu de la réunion du Sous-comité des invertébrés du CEESP

The majority of the Subcommittee accepted the paper with the revisions discussed by the Subcommittee, including a discussion of spatial scales in the context of biology of each animal and a rewording of the title in reference to “evaluation” and “small spatial scales”. [...] The Subcommittee Chair, J. Boutillier, opened the meeting by welcoming the participants, reviewing the objectives and protocols of the meeting and reviewing the agenda. [...] The second reviewer questioned the uncertainty around the yearly estimates of biomass, whether the methodologies used to estimate the management area biomasses changed over the time-series, and asked if the LLY model assumes no error structure, or if the error structure would be normally distributed? [...] The Subcommittee discussed at length the lack of a clearly superior model, noting the inherent limitations associated with each model and that a χ2 test on the results in Table 12 in the Working Paper would likely show that the differences between the models are random. [...] For the market samples, the data from the portions of the coast fished annually were not separated from the rest of the data.