Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessments (WGMG)

The ICES Working Group on Methods of Fish Stock Assessment (WGMG) met in Vigo, Spain during 10–19 October 2011. ToR 1a: Data screening techniques prior to the selection of stock assessment models are useful for exploring and demonstrating data features, checking for consistency within and between data sources, providing ball-park trends to be expected from assessment model, and understanding behaviour of assessment models. It was felt that these techniques are not used enough, and it was recommended that showing outputs from data pre-screening techniques that proved informative should be a standard requirement in ICES stock assessment WG reports.