Opinions: Weight-at-age table

[sbreitbart-NOAA]

Hi everyone,

We are working on developing a weight-at-age (WAA) table. We've based it off an example where the data is shown per year and age class, split by sex. Here's a screenshot of our example table:

We would like to hear your thoughts about WAA tables. Specifically:

1. How does your region present WAA data in tables?
2. How does your region handle WAA tables with multi-sex or multi-area models?
3. How do you think we should standardize this table?

TIA!
@nmfs-ost/asar-collaborators

[lisaailloud-NOAA]

We don't produce these tables in the SE.

[okenk]

NWFSC only has two assessments where this is applicable, so we don't have a "standard" and can easily adapt. For sablefish, the weight-at-age is sex-specific, but the assessment only includes figures

For hake, there is only one sex. It is technically a figure for the sake of 508-compliance, but is really more of a table:

My personal opinion is that it will be too hard to put both sexes (or multiple areas) in one table, and suggest dividing it into two tables

[kellijohnson-NOAA]

@sbreitbart-NOAA are you looking for feedback on model-predicted weight-at-age or plotting input weight-at-age data?

[sbreitbart-NOAA]

Hi all- thank you for your input. It's very helpful, as always. We've decided to put this table on hold.