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11th Session of the Working Party on Billfish

Meeting: 
Working Party on Billfish (WPB)
Meeting year: 
2013
Meeting session: 
11
Date: 
Wed, 18/09/2013 - 09:00 to Sun, 22/09/2013 - 17:00
Venue country/city: 
La Réunion, France
Location: 
Espace TAMARUN, La Saline-les-bains, La Réunion, France
Chairperson: 
M. Jérôme Bourjea
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr. Miguel Neves Santos
Deadlines: 

Please also note the following deadlines:
12-June-2013: Announcement by email from the Chair and IOTC Circular from the Executive Secretary.
Note: In 2011, the Scientific Committee ENCOURAGED data to be used in stock assessments, including CPUE standardisations, be made available not less than three months before each meeting by CPCs.
28-June-2013: Deadline for nominations of an Invited Expert.
05-July-2013: Chair to announce the successful Invited Expert for the meeting.
14-July-2013: 60 days pre-Meeting. Deadline for comments on draft agenda by participants to be provided to the Secretariat.
Note: In 2011, the Scientific Committee ENCOURAGED that where possible, data summaries be provided no later than two months prior to each meeting, from the IOTC Secretariat.
18-July-2013: Secretariat to circulate the revised draft agenda.
29-Jul-2013: 45 days pre-meeting. Deadline for applications to the Meeting Participation Fund in accordance with the Rules of procedure for the administration of the IOTC meeting participation fund.
13-Aug-2013: 30 days pre-meeting. Deadline for participants to notify the Secretariat of papers being submitted for the WPB11 meeting.
Note: in 2011, the Scientific Committee RECOMMENDED that data to be used in stock assessments, including CPUE standardisations be made available not less than 30 days before each meeting by CPCs.
19-Aug-2013: Secretariat to circulate draft Annotated Agenda.
02-Sept-2013: 15 days pre-meeting. Deadline for meeting papers to be submitted to the Secretariat by participants.
03-Sept-2013: Secretariat to circulate revised draft Annotated Agenda.
12-Sept-2013: Start of WPB11, Reunion Island

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Meeting information documents

Title File
Information for participants

Documents

Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
CEALL Catches and Effort - Billfish – all vessels 15/07/2013
CELL Catches and Effort – Billfish - vessels using drifting longlines 15/07/2013
CEOTHR Catches and Effort - Billfish - vessels using gears other than those referred to above 15/07/2013
CEPSBB Catches and Effort - Billfish - vessels using pole and lines or purse seines 15/07/2013
CE_Reference Catches and Effort - Billfish - reference 15/07/2013
DBCAT Billfish Data catalogue 2013 28/05/2013
Equations Size frequency – equations used to estimate standard lengths and estimate 25/06/2013
FL_ALL Size frequency – all Billfish species 13/09/2013
FL_BLM Size frequency – black marlin 15/07/2013
FL_BUM Size frequency – blue marlin 15/07/2013
FL_MLS Size frequency – striped marlin 13/09/2013
FL_SFA Size frequency – Indo-pacific sailfish 15/07/2013
FL_SWO Size frequency - swordfish 15/07/2013
NC_BILL Nominal Catches - Billfish 15/07/2013
SF_Reference Size frequency – reference 28/05/2013
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2013-WPB10-INF02 IOTC CE data - Exploratory analysis - Longline September 2013 21/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB10-INF03 A simple method for estimating MSY from catch and resilience 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-INF01 Guidelines for the presentation of stock assessment models 2013 26/06/2013
Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2013-WPB11-01a Draft agenda for the 11th Session of the working Party on Billfish 26/06/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-01b Draft: Annotated agenda of the Eleventh Working Party on Billfish 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-02 Draft: List of documents of the Eleventh Working Party on Billfish 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-03 Outcomes of the Fifteenth Session of the Scientific Committee 28/08/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-04 Outcomes of the Seventeenth Session of the Commission 28/08/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to billfish 29/08/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-06 Progress made on the recommendations of WPB10 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-07 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for billfish 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-08 Billfish identification cards 30/08/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-10 Multi-genetic marker approach and spatio-temporal analysis suggest there is a single panmictic population of swordfish Xiphias gladius in the Indian Ocean 13/08/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-11 Billfish: an important part of the pelagic gillnet fisheries of Pakistan 30/08/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-12 Fishery in Iran with particular reference to billfish 02/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-13 Billfish fishery of Thailand 02/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-14 Rev_1 Length frequency distributions of billfishes (Xiphiidae and Istiophoridae) from Indonesian tuna longline observer data 30/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-15 Catches of billfish by the Malaysian tuna longliners targeting the tropical and temperate tune in the Indian Ocean 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-16 Rev_1 A review on billfish fishery resources in Sri Lanka 16/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-17 Billfish caught in the recreational and sport fishing of south coast of Mozambique: Results of the first census of recreational and sport fishing in 2007 and the sampling program in 2012 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-18 Malagasy Billfish Fishery in 2012 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-19 Developments in the east African billfish conservation and research programme 04/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-20 Evaluation of the effect of lunar cycle, monsoon and spatial differences on billfishes 05/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-21 Preliminary results of the development of identification guide for dressed billfish 10/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-22 Rev_2 Correlations between environmental factors and CPUEs of blue marlin (Makaira mazara) and striped marlin (Kajikia audax) caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean 23/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-23 Rev_1 Standardization of catch rates for Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) and Blue marlin (Makaira mazara) in the Indian Ocean by the core fishing area approach using operational catch and effort data of the Japanese tuna longline fisheries 22/01/2014
IOTC-2013-WPB11-24 Rev_2 CPUE standardization of blue marlin (Makaira mazara) caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean for 1995 to 2011 23/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-25 Stock assessment of blue marlin (Makaira mazara) based on a Bayesian production model 21/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-26 Rev_2 CPUE standardization of striped marlin (Kajikia audax) caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean for 1995 to 2011 23/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-27 Exploratory stock assessment of the striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) caught in the Indian Ocean as calculated using a state-space biomass dynamic model 21/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-28 Rev_1 Stock assessment of three billfish species in Indian Ocean, blue, black and striped marlin using stock reduction methods 01/10/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-29 Seasonality, morphometrics and feeding behaviour of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) caught by sports fishers in the Kenyan waters 03/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-30 Rev_1 Exploratory analysis of the relationship between swordfish capture and environmental features in the southwest Indian Ocean 19/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-31 Rev_1 An updated overview of the swordfish catches by the Portuguese pelagic longline fishery in the Indian Ocean between 1998-2012: catch, effort, CPUE and catch-at-size 22/09/2013
IOTC-2013-WPB11-32 Evaluating the uncertainty of catch data and CPUE index on the stock assessment of blue marline and striped marlin in the Indian Ocean 21/09/2013
Meeting Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2013-WPB11-R Report of the Eleventh Session of the IOTC Working Party on Billfish 18/10/2013

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