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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The data preparation meeting for demersal stocks in the Adriatic Sea was held online from 11 to 13 October 2022. The meeting was attended by 22 experts from Albania, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia as well as from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Secretariat of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM). The main objective of this meeting was to provide a platform to review, discuss and analyse input data for the assessment of demersal stocks in the Adriatic Sea in advance of the Working Group on Stock Assessment of Demersal Species (WGSAD) to be held in December 2022. Information on seven stocks was presented and discussed: European hake (Merluccius merluccius), red mullet (Mullus barbatus), common sole (Solea solea), common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus), spottail mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) and horned octopus (Eledone cirrhosa).