Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team

associated with the market squid (Loligo opalescens) resource off the California coast. The overall goal of this CPSMT meeting was to review information generated from the recently conducted Stock Assessment Review (STAR) session for squid held in May 2001. Specifically, the CPSMT focused on the following objectives during the two-day meeting: (1) develop consensus regarding important points concluded in the STAR Panel’s Report; (2) determine if the suite of model configurations based on the Egg Escapement (EE) method could be further reduced into a tractable subset (Maxwell 2001); (3) further evaluate important parameters of the EE approach (e.g., population ‘threshold ’ levels) in efforts to establish maximum sustainable yield (MSY)-based management schemes; and (4) develop sampling, laboratory, and analysis schedules that support the EE approach in particular, and also discuss the merits of gathering auxiliary data that would improve understanding of squid population dynamics. The following synopsis presents the CPSMT’s recommendations