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The views and opinions expressed or implied in this article are those of the author (or authors) and do not necessarily reflect the position of the National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA. Abstract—Survey selectivity can be viewed as a function of the availability of the stock to the sampling gear and the sampling efficiency of the gear. A dome-shaped survey selectivity function is one in which survey selectivity decreases with larger and older fish. Such a function is estimated for eastern Bering Sea (EBS) Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service stock assessment model, which would be appropriate if large (≥55 cm in fork length) Pacific cod avoid capture by the EBS survey bottom trawl. To test this assumption, a field study was conducted to determine whether large Pacific cod escape capture by either outswimming the survey trawl or by swimming above the trawl. Our results show that large Pacific cod do not outswim the trawl because catches did not increase when we increased towing speed. Additionally, large Pacific cod do not routinely swim above the trawl because analysis of acoustic backscatter collected concurrently with trawl hauls indicated that only 4% of the acoustic backscatter attributed to Pacific cod occurred at heights above the headrope. We found no evidence that survey-gear efficiency decreased with increasing fish length either because large fish outswam the trawl or because they tend to occur further from the bottom. Therefore the results of our experiment do not support the use of a dome-shaped survey selectivity function in the EBS Pacific cod assessment model. Fisheries stock assessment surveys are intended to produce an index of relative stock abundance that varies over time in constant proportion to the true stock abundance. In stock assessment models, the scaler that relates modeled abundance to a survey index is often considered a product of a constant catchability and of a fish ageor length-dependent survey selectivity function (which, hereafter, for reasons of simplicity, we refer to as length-dependent functions, but the same concept applies to agedependent functions). Both catchability and selectivity are typically estimated when a stock assessment model is fitted to data (Maunder and Piner, 2015), although, in some cases, the catchability coefficient is fixed a priori (Thompson1,2,3).3The selectiv-

Is the survey selectivity curve for Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) dome-shaped? Direct evidence from trawl studies