Report of the Study Group on the evaluation of assessment and management strategies of the western herring stocks (SGHERWAY)

The final meeting of the ICES Study Group on the evaluation of assessment and man‐agement strategies of the western herring stocks [SGHERWAY] took place in Dublin, Ireland, 14–18 June, 2010. The Chair was Emma Hatfield (UK) and 8 people in total attended, from five nations. This is the final report of SGHERWAY. SGHERWAY was convened in 2008 to explore and evaluate the series of recommen‐dations produced by the EU funded WESTHER project which suggested that, in the current stock assessment setup for herring to the west of the British Isles, two of the basic assumptions of stock assessment are violated.