This is the reference case scenario for Silky Sharks for the 2013 Stock Assessment.

Updated Stock Assessment of Silky Sharks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, Joel Rice and Shelton Harley. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC-OFP), Noumea, New Caledonia.

This paper presents an update from the first stock assessment of silky shark in the western and central Pacific Ocean that was submitted to SC8 in August 2012. The main changes are the inclusion
of a greater number of CPUE and catch time series in the analysis. The assessment uses the stock assessment model and computer software known as Stock Synthesis (version 3.21B http://nft.nefsc.noaa.gov/Download.html.). The silky shark model is an age (36 years) structured, spatially aggregated (1 region) and two sex model. The catch, effort, and size composition of catch, are grouped into 4 fisheries, all of which cover the time period from 1995 through 2009.