This meeting was convened by the Trawl Survey Working Group of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee (TSC) and held March 22-24, 2011 at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center of the National Marine Fisheries Service (aka NOAA Fisheries) in Seattle. The Co-Conveners of the workshop were Rick Stanley (CDFO, PBS Nanaimo), Mark Wilkins (NMFS, AFSC, RACE Division, Seattle), and Aimee Keller (NMFS, NWFSC, FRAM Division, Seattle).