Theme Session D – Future of fisheries-independent surveys - progress in design, technology, estimation and management

<h2><b>Book of abstracts of theme session D:</b></h2><h3>Future of fisheries-independent surveys - progress in design, technology, estimation and management</h3><h4>Conveners: Stan Kotwicki (USA), Ingeborg de Boois (Netherlands), Richard O’Driscoll (New Zealand)​​</h4><ul><li>CM 24: The future of establishing groundfish density estimates in untrawlable habitat: paired lowered stereo-camera system and bottom trawl data</li><li>CM 26: Fishery-independent surveys can benefit from a paired gear approach: a case study from the Southeast Reef Fish Survey</li><li>CM 27: Weakly-supervised classification of acoustic echotraces in a multispecific pelagic environment</li><li>CM 44: Developing best practices in advancing new survey technology: lessons from a changing survey landscape in The Netherlands</li><li>CM 54: Routine data practices have unintended consequences for mesopelagic fisheries science</li><li>CM 76: Technological advancements in the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) video trawl survey</li><li>CM 89: FishGlob – towards a collaborative platform integrating scientific bottom-trawl survey data to study and manage species under global change</li><li>CM 142: Challenges and solutions for fisheries independent surveys: a New Zealand perspective</li><li>CM 143: We’re getting a new boat: design of trawl inter-calibration trials</li><li>CM 160: Survey time series integration: comparing video observations of snow crab (<i>Chionoecetes opilio</i>) in the Barents Sea with demersal trawl and pot data</li><li>CM 187: Improved estimates of selectivity for a long-term fishery-independent survey with technological changes</li><li>CM 188: When things turn out different despite good preparations</li><li>CM 209: Evaluation the efficiency of otolith collection for estimating the age composition of fish</li><li>CM 219: Addressing interactions between offshore wind energy development and fisheries independent surveys in the United States: Moving from Strategy to Developing a Survey Mitigation Program and Survey Mitigation Plans for NOAA Fisheries in the Northeast U.S. Region</li><li>CM 233: Survey design and implementation in a rapidly changing environment</li><li>CM 247: Spatiotemporal cross-validation of three survey methods for improved abundance indices of red king crab (<i>Paralithodes camtschaticus</i>)</li><li>CM 273: A comparison of survey design techniques for scallop, <i>Placopecten magellanicus</i>, camera sampling</li><li>CM 281: Understanding the limitations of static sampling designs to estimate abundance in a rapidly changing ecosystem</li><li>CM 414: Progress towards an analytical assessment of anglerfish based on an industry-science survey</li><li>CM 417: Industry contributions to data collection on Northeast Atlantic mackerel: benefits, lessons and challenges</li><li>CM 421: Development of comprehensive metadata records for a long-term monitoring program to facilitate data sharing and collaborative research</li><li>CM 427: Pathways to the modern fisheries-independent surveys of the future</li><li>CM 438: Mitigating Class-Imbalance in Acoustic Target Classification for Fisheries via Similarity-Based Data Selection</li><li>CM 462: Evaluation of alternative statistical sampling designs for a long-running multispecies bottom trawl survey</li><li>CM 477: How might climate change affect indices of abundance? A simulation study starting point</li><li>CM 482: Adapting to new technology: using ropeless gear to target American lobster (<i>Homarus americanus</i>) in fishery-independent sampling in New England, USA</li><li>CM 497: Recent advances in the design and technology of an industry-based bottom longline survey in the Gulf of Maine, USA</li><li>CM 539: Assessment of the impacts of changing survey diel protocols in estimating abundance indices</li><li>CM 547: Evaluating and calibrating historical long-term monitoring data for spatiotemporal consistency</li><li>CM 564: Quantifying the scientific and economic value of surveys to fisheries management</li><li>CM 579: Spatio-temporal variability of sardine <i>Sardina pilchardus</i> population inhabiting the gulf of Cadiz</li><li>CM 580: Cooperative research: Experiences from the integration of a commercial fishing vessel to ensure the continuity of survey indices</li><li>CM 623: The evolution of a regional sardine survey into a multi-national, multi-platform ecosystem assessment</li><li>CM 625: Modeling impacts of survey imprecision on the assessment of fish stocks</li><li>CM 638: Spatial distribution and biomass of Chilean jack mackerel off south-central Chile based on acoustic records from fishing vessels</li><li>CM 639: Monitoring juvenile abundance of southern bluefin tuna via a fisheries-independent genetic tagging program</li><li>CM 641: Re-envisioning west coast pelagic surveys: maintaining critical fisheries-independent time series while integrating survey effort on the U.S. west coast</li></ul>