Review of Indian Ocean skipjack tuna statistical data

The overarching objective of the paper is to provide participants at the preparatory meeting of the 24^th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT24(AS)) with a review of the status of the information on skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis; SKJ) available at the IOTC Secretariat as of May 2022. The document provides an overview of the fisheries catching skipjack tuna in the Indian Ocean through temporal and spatial trends in catches and their main recent features, as well as an assessment of the reporting quality of the data sets. A full description of the data collated and curated by the Secretariat is available in IOTC-2022-WPTT24-03a