Evaluations of an empirical MP for Indian Ocean skipjack tuna

The primary objective of this work is to develop a Management Procedure (MP) for Indian
Ocean Skipjack tuna (SKJ), which includes specification of the data inputs, harvest control
rule (HCR) and management outputs, and that has been fully tested using an appropriate
simulation framework.
Following the presentation of developmental work to the Working Party on Methods (Edwards,
2020a,b, IOTC, 2020a), the MSE Task Force (IOTC, 2021b) and the Technical Committee
on Management Procedures (Edwards, 2021, IOTC, 2021c), in which a suitable simulation
evaluation framework was proposed, the current work presents further development of an
empirical MP with which to recommend a total catch for the fishery.