Trial Specifications Document
North Pacific Swordfish MSE
1 Introduction
This Trial Specifications Document (TSD) describes the design and technical details of the Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) of North Pacific swordfish (Xiphias gladius; NSWO), including the operating models, candidate management procedures, and performance metrics used to evaluate them.
The TSD is a living document that will be updated as the MSE progresses to reflect the current state of the analysis.
For more information on the North Pacific Swordfish MSE process see the project homepage.
1.1 About the NSWO MSE
The NSWO MSE is built and maintained by Blue Matter Science using the openMSE framework.
The analysis is fully reproducible, and all materials are available in the associated GitHub repository.