State of the Ecosystem 2020: Mid-Atlantic

The information in this report is organized around general ecosystem-level management objectives, and indicators related to these objectives are grouped into four general categories in the four sections below: economic and social, protected species, fish and invertebrates, and habitat quality and ecosystem productivity. Each section begins with a summary of main messages with links to other sections, including any new information added at the request of the Fishery Management Councils, and includes figures with brief descriptions of all current indicators. Detailed technical methods documentation and indicator data are available online. The details of standard figure formatting, categorization of fish and invertebrate species into feeding groups, and definitions of ecological production units (EPUs, including the Mid-Atlantic Bight, MAB) are provided at the end of the document. 2020 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) NEFSC (Northeast Fisheries Science Center) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/1f8j-d564 Public Domain 1861