Review of the statistical data available for bycatch species

PURPOSE
To provide participants at the 9th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (WPEB09) with a review of the status of the information available on non-targeted, associated and dependent species from IOTC fisheries in the databases at the IOTC Secretariat as of July 2013. It covers data on sharks, seabirds, marine turtles, marine mammal, and other bycatch.