WASHINGTON, March 3 -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a notice called: Research Track Assessment for Atlantic Herring; Public Meeting.

The notice was published in the Federal Register on March 3 by Karen H. Abrams, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

Summary: NMFS will convene the Research Track Assessment Peer Review Meeting for the purpose of reviewing the Atlantic herring stock. The Research Track Assessment Peer Review is a formal scientific peer-review process for evaluating and presenting stock assessment results to managers for fish stocks in the offshore U.S. waters of the northwest Atlantic. Assessments are prepared by the research track working group an...