Project Description
SEDAR 91 is a Benchmark Assessment that will address the stock assessment for Caribbean Spiny Lobster. The Data Workshop was held in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands Nov 13-15, 2024. The Assessment Process will be a series of webinars held between January 2025 and July 2025; and the Review Workshop will be held in August 2025.
For more information, please contact the SEDAR Coordinator for this project, Emily L. Ott: Emily.Ott@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 91, please complete the form at the link below.
To view public comments that have been submitted for SEDAR 91, please review the report at the link below.
Project Workshops
SEDAR 91 Caribbean Spiny Lobster Data Workshop
The Data Workshop was held at the Windward Passage Hotel, 640 Veteran’s Drive, Charlotte Amali, St. Thomas, USVI 00804. The meeting will begin at 8:30 am on Wednesday, November 13th until 6:00 pm on Friday, November 15th 2024. A livestream was available.
Workshop Working Papers
- SEDAR 91 DW-01: Summary of participatory modeling workshops to understand ecological, social and economic dimensions of the U.S. Virgin Islands lobster fishery Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-02: Summary of participatory modeling workshops to understand ecological, social and economic dimensions of the Puerto Rican lobster fishery Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-03: Signs of the Abundance of Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus PR Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-04: Trip Interview Program Size Composition Puerto Rico Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-05: Trip Interview Program Size Composition St. Thomas and St. John Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-06: Trip Interview Program Size Composition STX Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-07: Commercial Landings of Caribbean Spiny Lobster in Puerto Rico Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-08: Commercial Landings of Caribbean Spiny Lobster in St. Thomas and St. John Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 DW-09: Commercial Landings of Caribbean Spiny Lobster in St. Croix Opens in a new window
Workshop Reference Documents
- SEDAR 91 RD-01: On the productivity and technical efficiency of the Puerto Rican queen conch Aliger gigas Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-02: Socio-economic Profile of the Small-scale Dive Fishery in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-03: Determining the age-size relationship of Panulirus argus in the southwest area of Puerto Rico Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-04: Annual Juvenile Recruitment of Spiny Lobsters, Panulirus Argus (Decapoda, Palinuridae), in a Shallow Seagrass Bed and a Deeper Hard Bottom off Western Puerto Rico Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-05: Patterns of Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) Postlarval Recruitment in the Carribbean: A CRTR Project Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-06: Developing a population assessment for Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus in the United States Virgin Islands: lessons learned Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-07: Estimate of In-water Size Structure of Spiny Lobsters in St. Thomas Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-08: Displaced juvenile and subadult Caribbean spiny lobsters Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-09: Ocean acidification disrupts the orientation of postlarval Caribbean spiny lobsters Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-10: Relationships between postlarval settlement and commercial landings Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-11: Gastric mill ossicles record chronological age in the Caribbean spiny lobster Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-12: Spiny Lobster SEAMAP Program Survey 2021-23 Opens in a new window
- SEDAR 91 RD-13: Progress Report Independent fishery data collection for lobster and conch Opens in a new window