Project Description
The SEDAR 105 assessment will address the stock assessment for Gulf Gag Grouper. The process will begin with a scoping webinar, followed by webinars associated with the Life History and Red Tide Mortality Topical Working Groups (TWGs) . The assessment should be completed late 2026. For more information, please contact the SEDAR Coordinator for this project, Julie A. Neer: julie.neer@safmc.net
NOTE: SEDAR Working papers document the methods, datasets, and preliminary analyses that are under consideration at the various workshops and therefore do not necessarily represent final consensus opinions of workshop participants. Working paper findings and methods may change following workshop review. Working papers should not be cited without author permission.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
To submit a public comment for SEDAR 105, please complete the form at the link below.
To view public comments that have been submitted for SEDAR 105, please review the report at the link below.
Project Workshops
SEDAR 105 Gulf Gag Grouper Documentation
Working Papers
- SEDAR 105 WP-02: General Recreational Survey Data for Gag in the Gulf of America Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-03: Proxy Discard Estimates of Gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) from the US Gulf of America Headboat Fishery Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-06: Commercial Landings of Gulf of America Gag Grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis) from 1962 – 2024 Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-09: Accounting for episodic mortality events in the estimation of fishery reference points for groupers in the Gulf of America Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-10: Electronic Monitoring Documentation of Gag Grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis) in the Eastern Gulf Commercial Reef Fish Fishery Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-11: CPUE Expansion Estimation for Commercial Discards of Gulf of America Gag and Associated Weighted Discard Length Composition Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-12: Evaluating the risks of misspecifying red tide mortality within Gulf grouper stock assessments Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-13: A Summary of Gulf Gag Grouper Discard Length Data Collected from At-Sea Observers in For-Hire Fishery Surveys in Florida 2005-2024 Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 105 WP-14: A Review of GAG Grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis) Length and Age Data in the Gulf of America, 1977-2025 Opens in a new window