Jason Jannot
60:48 - 61:15
“This was the first CIE review of the North Pacific Observer Program, and as far as I'm aware, it is the first CIE review that's exclusively focused on any U.S. observer program.”
- Speaker
- Jason Jannot
- Timestamp
- 60:48 – 61:15
- Transcript
- NPFMC 280 Day 2 - October 9, 2026
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 9, 2026
From the transcript
And I put that definition up there because typically a CIE review is done on stock assessment, right? When they change their models or they update the science, they want these external reviews. This was the first CIE review of the North Pacific Observer Program, and as far as I'm aware, it is the first CIE review that's exclusively focused on any U.S. observer program. As I said, most of the time these are focused on stock assessments. In some cases, observer data may come into those CIE reviews, but this is the first one that I'm aware of that's been solely focused on an observer program.
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