Strategies for the conditioning of operating models for IOTC stocks

• This paper explores the process of conditioning OMs in the IOTC MSE context. The current
suite of MSE evaluation work has used the stock assessment as the basis for the suite of
OMs used to test candidate MPs
• Given issues arising for at least two of the stocks, we outline what could be done to
conditions representative OMs if the stock assessment is not accepted and doesn’t form a
workable OM basis
• This does not mean a suggested change to how OMs have been conditioned previously; it is
simply a suggested augmentation to the current suite of OM conditioning methods that can
deal with insurmountable stock assessment problems