Indices of abundance - what do we want to say about state indices?

[aliwhitman]

So I had a couple of thoughts on this.

Currently, there's a section (1.6.5) on the "Oregon Recreational Observer Program Data". The contact for this section should be updated to me. But it also raised a larger issue on organization for me. This is a commonly developed index for assessments but it's also a fishery-dependent index, which seems out of place in this section (1.6 - Summary of NOAA fishery independent trawl surveys used for west coast assessments).

We have at least two, possibly three as of this cycle, fishery-independent surveys that are utilized in assessments. And then several other fishery-dependent indices. If I could suggest a solution, I would suggest including a couple of brief sections for each of these types (FI and FD) that I could describe or list the surveys and include myself as the contact for those. Probably neither of those proposed sections would fit under 1.6 but I'm sure we could find an appropriate spot for them. I would be happy to write those, but didn't want to make organizational changes to the document.

And do other states provide similar kinds of indices or datasets for index development?