Hello Erin,
First off, I want to apologize that you never received a response back on this post. I was revisiting some older issues this morning and realized there was one opened thanks to your observations: https://github.com/nmfs-stock-synthesis/stock-synthesis/issues/97 . In the future, please feel free to post again or to send an email to nmfs.stock.synthesis@noaa.gov if a forum post doesn't recieve any responses.
Thank you for posting about this bug - the fix for it should have been included in 3.30.17, so hopefully you won't run into the same issue with the latest release of SS. Please feel free to comment again on the post if the same issue persists in 3.30.17!
Thank you,
Kathryn