README.Rmd

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title: "README"
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date: "8/23/2024"
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# Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Northern rock sole stock assessment
This repository houses relevant code and files corresponding to the BSAI Northern rock sole stock assessment. A release of the latest version of the files is planned for December of each year moving forward.

## 2022 model runs
The accepted stock assessment model is in the folder 2022/model_runs/c1mod4_2022

The ABC was based on the OFL from the model run 2022/model_runs/c1mod4_francis_2022

A third model run that was included in the 2022 SAFE is 2022/model_runs/c1mod4_francis_estMQbigpriors

All three models are described in the 2022 SAFE: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/data/2022-assessment-northern-rock-sole-stock-bering-sea-and-aleutian-islands

# Acronymns

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration     
NMFS: National Marine Fisheries Service     
AFSC: Alaska Fisheries Science Center     
REFM: Resource and Ecology and Fisheries Management  
BSAI: Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
NRS: Northern rock sole

# Legal disclaimer
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