Report of the Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessments

Working papers were available on topics (i) to (iii), and these are listed in Appendix A. Where the material has not been published elsewhere, the content of these has, where appropriate, been summarised in this report. The reports of the ad hoc Working Group on the Use of Effort Data in Assessments (1981) and the Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessments (1983) have now been reprinted in the ICES •Cooperative Research Report 1 series (Anon., 1984a).