Multispecies Fisheries Assessment for NAFO

Since the creation of the Working Group for Ecosystem Studies and Assessment (WGESA) in NAFO, there have been substantial advances towards the implementation of the roadmap for an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF), as for example the calculations of Ecosystem and Fisheries Production Potential (EPP and FPP respectively) and the estimates of natural mortality using a multispecies model.