Report of the Planning Group for the Development of Multispecies, Multifleet Assessment

Terms of Reference

1) Plan and coordinate the development of new software

packages to extend multi-species, multi-fleet assessment tools to area-based assessment Working Groups in "user-friendly" form;

2) Recommend appropriate fleet definitions, data formats and analysis software to aHow consistent catch and effort analysis for stocks which are the responsibility of area-based Working Groups;

3) Report to the Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessment, the Multispecies Assessment Working Group, and the area-based Working Groups.