2024 Report/Future wish list

[EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA]

👍 Prep 2023 Content

• Clean up local-species-name xlsx to better use the new taxonomic species groupings in gap_products.taxonomic_classification #24
• Community: further simplify

📎 Formatting

• Biomass tables within species profiles and Tables in Appendix C not italicizing species names correctly, asterisks still exist around Genus and species.
• left justify table captions
• remove *s and italicize all species names within Table captions (species profiles and Appendix C)
• Migrate to quarto from RMarkdown

🐟 Species Narratives

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🚢 BS Data Report

Notes from reviewers that we'll need to address next round:

• Figure 2: missing corner station near Unimak (AZ0504) Consider labeling this station
• General note: NMFS standards dictate that fish common names are lower case (unless it's a proper noun aka Kamchatka) Fix paragraphs in Species Composition and see what NMFS publishing says about the way the names are in there now.
• pg 12: There's a sentence indicating that ~50 tows per vessel had no net mensuration data, which seemed high (bc it is!). I talked with Duane and these tows had either height or spread (except 3 on the AKK). The current sentence might benefit from some clarity. I suggest adjusting this sentence to indicate that these tows were missing either spread or height data. In the NBS, all tows on the AKK had either height or spread and 1 tow on the NWX had no data. Make sure sentence is fixed
• pg 14: giant wrymouth has not been seen since 1993 and rarely prior to that year. I don't know if it's entirely relevant to state that this species is whole-hauled when we haven't seen it in 30 years. (select * from racebase.catch where region = 'BS' and species_code = 23792). Make sure giant wrymouth is removed from list
• Change 3rd paragraph in 'Biomass, Abundance, and Catch per Unit Effort' section accordingly. Stan suggests eliminating these sentences or just concentrating on species that we have confidence that Bottom Trawl can detect with relativle stable efficiency. Many of these increases and decreases are observed just by random chance and it is misleading to provide these kind of numbes when we know that the BT is not design for provide reliable estimates of biomas for many of these species.
  

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Northern BS Community Highlights

• New (and improved) photos of species. Maybe comms team has?
• Obtain correct spellings for local species names from Mabel and from the communities
• Meet with Gay for feedback

🌵 Forever backburner

• develop a way to calculate spp size comp peaks - discuss the number of appropriate peaks, model sensitivity, and model types.
• Provide all jpgs and pdfs of spp dist on site where they can be downloaded. @ChrisAnderson-NOAA maybe we can work on a webpage thing?
• Socio-econ integration and collab