This paper presents different methods to estimate the reference points (Blim, Bmsy and Fmsy) to be used in
the 3M NAFO cod MSE. Reference points should be specific for each of the possible realities, what defines the
different possible realities are the different OMs and, within each OM, the different iterations. The methods
presented here try to estimate the reference points by iteration for the different OMs since it is assuming that
the reference points will be interpreted as a characteristic of the “real” population. The results of some of the
methods proposed to estimate the management reference points (limit and target) seem to be not consistent
between them. The results show that in this case the proxy used as Fmsy (F30%SpR) seems quite reasonable
