Preliminary Indian Ocean Yellowfin Tuna Stock Assessment 1950-2017 (Stock Synthesis)

This paper presents a preliminary stock assessment of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Indian Ocean (IO) including fishery data up to 2017. The assessment implements an age- and spatially-structured population model using the Stock Synthesis software (Methot 2013, Methot & Wetzel 2013).