Salmon methodology review: SSC and STT find no topics ready for October; recommend SSC review Sacramento work‑group documentation in November

The Scientific and Statistical Committee and the Salmon Technical Team told the council they had reviewed candidate topics and concluded that no methodology-review items are ready for the October 2026 meeting. SSC chair Jason Schaffler said the SSC "concurs with the STT that no items from the SSC April 2026 list nor any new items are ready for methodology review this year."

The SSC proposed that documentation and methodology related to Chinook reference points (prepared by the Sacramento River work group and submitted to the peer-review panel) be reviewed by the full SSC in November to provide context for the Sacramento River Fall Chinook peer review results. Members and staff noted that any tasking of the SSC to do additional review should be discussed under workload planning and aligned with the council's sequence of peer review, status-determination criteria, and harvest-policy steps.