SCW17 Preliminary Agenda
SPRFMO
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation
Jack Mackerel Working Group
SCW17 Preliminary Agenda
Meeting: Scientific Committee Workshop 17 (SCW17)
Focus: Jack mackerel management strategy evaluation preparation
Status: Working draft for organiser review
Source archive: SCW16 benchmark preparation site
Purpose
SCW17 is expected to carry the 2026 jack mackerel benchmark outcomes into management-strategy-evaluation work. The agenda should distinguish decisions needed for operating-model conditioning from items that can remain as diagnostics, robustness scenarios, or later SC14 documentation.
Immediate Decisions to Frame
- Operating-model conditioning set and any benchmark-derived sensitivities to retain.
- Recruitment-process assumptions and stock-recruitment parameter treatment.
- Treatment of single-stock and two-stock hypotheses in advice development.
- Performance metrics, time horizons, and risk-tolerance language.
- Candidate management-procedure families and tuning targets.
- Robustness scenarios and exceptional-circumstances meta-rules.
- Cross-platform validation responsibilities and timetable.
Draft Programme
| Day | Session | Draft focus | Expected output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Opening and benchmark handoff | Review benchmark outcomes, accepted inputs, unresolved diagnostics, and MSE dependencies. | Agreed list of benchmark outputs that move into OM conditioning. |
| Day 2 | Operating models | Review conditioned OMs, recruitment assumptions, stock hypotheses, and reference/robustness sets. | OM set and sensitivity classification. |
| Day 3 | Candidate management procedures | Review candidate MPs, data streams, tuning targets, constraints, and implementation status. | Shortlist of MPs for evaluation. |
| Day 4 | Performance metrics and trade-offs | Review conservation, yield, stability, and exceptional-circumstances metrics. | Agreed performance metrics and presentation format. |
| Day 5 | Recommendations and report drafting | Resolve remaining decisions, assign drafting tasks, and agree SC14 documentation path. | Draft recommendations and action table. |
Working Document Register
| Document | Working title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SCW17-Doc00 | Preliminary agenda | Draft |
| SCW17-Doc01 | Benchmark outcomes for MSE conditioning | To start |
| SCW17-Paper-02 | Reference points used for SPRFMO jack mackerel management | Draft |
| SCW17-Doc02 | Operating-model conditioning and diagnostics | To start |
| SCW17-Doc03 | Candidate management procedures and performance metrics | To start |
| SCW17-Doc04 | Robustness scenarios and exceptional circumstances | To start |
| SCW17-Doc05 | Cross-platform validation summary | To start |
Setup Notes
- Keep final public artifacts in
docs/and source documents indoc/. - Keep bulky model outputs, temporary render folders, and transferred meeting packages outside this repository unless they are intentionally published.
- Link back to the SCW16 preparation archive rather than copying benchmark outputs into this repository.