SPC stock assessments are made available in two places: a full archive of the work done stored on the Penguin network drive, and a showcase analysis on GitHub that invites people to explore the main data and results.
For example, the 2023 BET and YFT assessment archives are found on Penguin at
z:/bet/2023
z:/yft/2023
and the showcase repos (public) are at
The Penguin archive is structured following the SPC standard directory structure and some of the subdirectories are cloned repos (private), such as
ofp-sam-yft-2023-assessment
ofp-sam-yft-2023-data-prep
ofp-sam-yft-2023-growth
ofp-sam-yft-2023-hessian
ofp-sam-yft-2023-jitter
ofp-sam-yft-2023-maturity
ofp-sam-yft-2023-natmort
ofp-sam-yft-2023-plots
ofp-sam-yft-2023-regions
ofp-sam-yft-2023-shiny
ofp-sam-yft-2023-stepwise
ofp-sam-yft-2023-tagging
ofp-sam-yft-2023-writeup
ofp-sam-2023-YFT-BET-cpue
ofp-sam-bet-yft-2023-size-comps
To measure the SPC progress towards organizing the stock assessment work and providing an open and reproducible showcase of our analyses, the following grading scheme can be used, with a maximum score of 15 for a given stock assessment.
0 Nothing on Penguin
1 Partial remnants of data preparation, model runs, plots, and deliverables
2 Standard SPC directory structure
3 Reproducible plot scripts for the majority of figures in the published report
0 Not available online
1 Link on FAME website
2 Link points to GitHub repo outside of SPC
3 Link points to SPC GitHub repo
0 SPC stock assessment team cannot see it
1 SPC stock assessment team can see it
2 WCPFC scientific committee can see it
3 The world can see it
0 Difficult for SPC stock assessment team to find things
1 Readme explains where things are
2 Main data and results in CSV format
3 TAF format
0 SPC stock assessment team cannot easily run scripts
1 SPC stock assessment team can easily run scripts
2 Scripts produce results that match the published report
3 TAF format