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13th Working Party on Billfish (WPB13)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Billfish (WPB)
Meeting year: 
2015
Meeting session: 
13
Date: 
Tue, 01/09/2015 (All day) to Sat, 05/09/2015 (All day)
Venue country/city: 
Olhão, Portugal
Location: 
Real Marina Hotel and Spa
Chairperson: 
Dr Jerome Bourjea (EU,France)
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr. Miguel Santos (EU,Portugal)
Summary: 

DEADLINES: Papers for consideration during the WPB meeting are due no later than 15 days before the commencement of the session.

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Meeting information documents

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Documents

Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPB13-01a Draft: Agenda for the 13th Session of the Working Party on Billfish (27 August 2015) 23/12/2014
IOTC-2015-WPB13-01b Draft: Annotated agenda of the 13th Working Party on Billfish (29 August 2015) 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-02 Draft: List of documents of the 13th Working Party on Billfish (29 August 2015) 04/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-03 Outcomes of the 17th Session of the Scientific Committee 01/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-04 Outcomes of the 19th Session of the Commission 01/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to billfish 08/04/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-06 Progress made on the recommendation of WPB12 28/01/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-07 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for billfish 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-08 Rev_1 Revision of the WPB Program of Work (2016–2020) (15 April 2015) 15/04/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-09 DRAFT: Development of options for alternative management measures (including closures) for billfish in the IOTC area of competence 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-10 Rev_1 Catch of billfishes by Malaysian tuna longliners in the southwestern Indian Ocean 21/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-11 The Maldives billfish fishery – an update 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-12 Rev_1 A review on tuna and tuna-like species in Iran and present status of gillnet billfish fishery 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-13 Rev_2 Billfish by-catches of the Seychelles industrial longline fishery 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-14 Catch of billfish by Thai tuna longliners during 2010-2014 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-15 Historical catches of marlins caught by sports fishers in the Kenyan waters 21/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-16 : Swordfish caught in longline fishery of southern Mozambique. Preliminary information based on observer onboard sampling 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-17 Standardization of CPUE for striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) of Japanese longline fishery in Indian Ocean 21/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-18 Indian Ocean striped marlin assessment based on the CPUE indices derived from the Japanese and Taiwanese longline fleets 04/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-19 Stock assessments for striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) in the Indian Ocean by A Stock-Production Model Incorporating Covariates (ASPIC) 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-20 Spatio-temporal and length distributions of istiophorids in the southwest Indian Ocean inferred from scientific, observer and self-reporting data of the Reunion Island based pelagic longline fishery 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-21 Some biological parameters of Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus Shaw, 1792) caught by Indonesian longliners in eastern Indian Ocean 21/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-22 Estimate length-weight relationship and some morphometric relationships of Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) using biological data of gillnet fishery and longline fishery in Sri Lanka 21/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-23 Observations on the Indo-Pacific sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, from the Portuguese pelagic longline fleet in the Indian Ocean 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-24 Catch rates of Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) as calculated based on IOTC longline dataset 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-25 Estimation of catch-per-unit-effort of Indo Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) caught with gillnet in the north of Indian Ocean 17/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-26 CPUE standardization of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) caught by Japanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean from 1994 to 2014 13/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-27 Preliminary stock assessment of Indo Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) using separated and composite estimations of relative abundance indices 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-28 Stock assessment of Indo-Pacific sailfish in the Indian Ocean 04/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-29 ObServe: Database and operational software for longline and purse seine fishery data 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-30 Development of a novel high-throughput assay to evaluate genetic population structure in striped marlin (Kajikia audax) 24/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-31 CPUE standardization of striped marlin (Kajikia audax) caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean using targeting effect derived from cluster and principle component analyses 27/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-32 Rev_1 Stock assessment of striped marlin (Kajikia audax) in the Indian Ocean using an age-structured integrated approach 27/08/2015
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA01 Rev_4 Billfish datasets available (29 August 2015) 07/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA02 Data Catalogue 29/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA03 Rev_2 Data for the assessment of Indian Ocean Striped Marlin and Sailfish stock 07/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA04 Rev_1 Japan standardised longline CPUE series 1976–2013 20/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA05 Taiwan-China standardised longline CPUE series 1980–2013 20/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA06 Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species 29/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA07 Catch and Effort - Longline 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA08 Catch and Effort - vessels using pole and lines or purse seines 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA09 Catch and Effort - Coastal 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA10 Catch and Effort - all vessels 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA11 Catch and Effort - reference 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA12 Size Frequency - All Billfish species 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA13 DATA- Billfish Equations 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA14 Size frequency - reference 30/07/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA15 Japan standardised longline CPUE series 1976–2013 (All areas) 01/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-DATA16 Standardised SFA CPUE series 1950-2014 01/09/2015
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF01 Guidelines for the presentation of CPUE standardisations and stock assessment models 29/01/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF02 On Resolution 15/01 On the recording of catch and effort data by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF03 Resolution 15/02 On mandatory statistical reporting requirements for IOTC Contracting Parties and Cooperating Non-Contracting Parties (CPCs) 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF04 Resolution 15/05 On conservation measures for striped marlin, black marlin and blue marlin 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF05 Resolution 15/10 On target and limit reference points and a decision framework 18/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF06 Systematics of the billfishes (Xiphiidae and Istiophoridae) 27/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF07 Phylogeny of recent billfishes (Xiphioidei) 27/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPB13-INF08 DNA barcoding of billfishes 27/08/2015
Meeting Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPB13-R[E] Report of the 13th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Billfish 03/11/2015

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