2014 Interim Report of the Working Group on Multispecies Assessment Methods (WGSAM)

In this eight report of the pan-regional Working Group on Multispecies Assessment Methods (WGSAM), work focused on five (A, B, C, H) of the multi-annual ToRs. Based on their knowledge, participants provided an updated inventory of progress of multispecies models in ICES Ecoregions (ToR A), noting those regions where no in-formation was available. While none of the participants at this year’s WGSAM was able to provide a verbal update, written contributions highlight that progress is being made with the development of ATLANTIS ecosystem models in ICES several ecore-gions: notably the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Eastern Channel and Barents and Norwegian Seas.