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Acknowledgments {#sec:acknowledgments}

We thank the authors of previous assessments whose work remains an influential part of this assessment. We are grateful for the hard work of the U.S. and Canadian acoustics teams, including (in alphabetical order) Ethan Beyer, Alicia Billings, Dezhang Chu, Julia Clemons, Steve Deblois, Jackie Detering, Stephane Gauthier, Elizabeth Phillips, John Pohl, Benjamin Snow, Chelsea Stanley, and Rebecca Thomas, as well as the crews of the NOAA ship Bell Shimada, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship CCGS Sir John Franklin, and the fishing vessel Nordic Pearl. We thank the following individuals who contributed technical assistance, analysis tools, data, or comments to this and/or previous assessments: Scott Buchanan, Dezhang Chu, Chelsea Cooke, Cassandra Donavan, Mark Freeman, Marie Guldin, Jamie Hale, Owen Hamel, Jim Hastie, Melissa Head, Jason Jannot, William Jasper, Tyler Johnson, Brian Langseth (who gave insightful comments on a draft version), Jerry Leonard, Kristin Marshall, Rick Methot, Patrick McDonald, Cole Monnahan, Andrea Odell, Kiva Oken, Elizabeth Phillips, Chelsea Rothkop, Erin Steiner, Brad Stenberg, Ian Taylor, Jim Thorson, Vanessa Tuttle, Audrey Ty, Eric Ward, and contributions by many others that are too numerous to list here. We also thank the attendees at the official JTC meeting who provided valuable insight into the r end_yr - 1 commercial fisheries in Canada and the U.S., as well as additional perspective on the acoustic survey and r sp related research. We appreciate the input from the AP (particularly for providing Appendices~\@ref(sec:app-canada-fishery-report) and \@ref(sec:app-us-fishery-report)) and other industry representatives as well as the JMC members.

We thank all the members of the Scientific Review Group for their thoughtful review and smoothly run SRG meeting, including co-chairs John Holmes and Owen Hamel, panel members Trevor Branch, Jaclyn Cleary, and Allan Hicks, and AP advisors Shannon Mann and Lori Steele.

Finally, we are very thankful for the Treaty coordinator, Colin Sayre, for handling logistics related to Treaty communications and meetings.

We thank the Stock Synthesis, the \texttt{r4ss} R package, and the \texttt{adnuts} R package development teams for continually improving stock assessment tools used in this assessment. Calculations and figures from Stock Synthesis output were performed using r R.Version()$version.string. Many R [@RCoreTeam] packages were used to produce this document (in particular \texttt{bookdown}, \texttt{rmarkdown}, \texttt{knitr}, and \texttt{adnuts})

Having all of the code under \texttt{git} version control has greatly increased the collaboration between authors. It has been in use since the 2016 assessment [@JTC2016] and has ensured delivery of the assessment document each year within a contracted time frame.



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