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14th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (WPEB14)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (WPEB)
Meeting year: 
2018
Meeting session: 
14
Date: 
Mon, 10/09/2018 (All day) to Fri, 14/09/2018 (All day)
Venue country/city: 
Cape Town, South Africa
Location: 
The Protea Hotel by Marriott Cape Town Victoria Junction (VJ)
Chairperson: 
Dr Sylvain Bonhommeau
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr Reza Shahifar; Dr Ross Wanless
Summary: 

DEADLINES

  • Meeting Participation Fund  (27 July 2018)
  • Paper titles (11 August 2018)
  • Full papers (26 August 2018)

(all submissions should be sent to [email protected])

Meeting Participation Fund

To see if you are eligible to an assistance under the MPF, please consult the Rules of procedure for the administration of the IOTC meeting participation fund.
Applications should consist of:

i)      an official nomination letter;
ii)     a detailed abstract of the scientific paper to be presented; and
iii)    the contact details of the nominee (with a copy of his/her passport).

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Meeting information documents

Title File
Information document

Documents

Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-01a DRAFT Agenda of the WPEB14 08/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-01b_Rev2 Draft Annotated agenda of the WPEB14 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-02_Rev3 Draft List of Documents of the WPEB14 14/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-03 Outcomes of the 20th Session of the Scientific Committee 27/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-04 Outcomes of the 22nd Session of the Commission 27/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-05 Review of current Conservation and Management Measures relating to Ecosystems and Bycatch 27/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-06 Progress since WPEB13 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-07 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for ecosystems and bycatch species 04/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-08_Rev1 Update on the implementation of the ROS 30/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-09 Status of development and implementation of NPOAs for seabirds and sharks and implementatin of the FAO guidelines to reduce marine turtle mortaliity in fishing operations 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-10 Revision of the WPEB Program of Work (2019–2023) 31/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-11_Rev1 An update on the National Plan of Action for Sharks, South Africa 10/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-12 FAD Watch: a collaborative initiative to minimize the impact of FADs in coastal ecosystems 07/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-13_Rev1 Comparing the biological characteristics, length structure and capture status of bycatch in the Chinese longline fishery targeting different species in the Indian Ocean 10/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-14_Rev1 Biological and ecological traits of non-targeted species caught by the tuna purse seine fishery in the western Indian Ocean 10/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-15 Bycatch of The European, and Assocated Flag, Purse-Seine Tuna Fishery in the Indian Ocean for the Period 2008-2017 07/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-16 Bycatch landings in Phuket Ports by foreign vessel, 2017 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-17_Rev1 Iran tuna fisheries by-catch in IOTC competence of area in 2017 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-18_Rev1 Improving the sampling protocol of electronic and human observations of the tropical tuna purse seine fishery discards 10/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-19 SIOTI Support for lmproving lnformation on Bycatch for Management of the lndian Ocean Purse Seine Tuna Fishery 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-20 An indicator-based ecosystem report card – an evolving process 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-21_Rev1 Selecting ecosystem indicators for fisheries targeting highly migratory species 11/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-23 Retrospective and geographical overview of the interaction between seabirds and the Spanish surface longline fishery targeting Swordfish in the Indian Ocean during the 1993-2017 period inferred from data provided by scientific observers at sea. 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-24 Preliminary assessment of the risk of albatrosses by longline fisheries 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-25 Update on the seabird component of the Common Oceans (ABNJ) tuna project – seabird bycatch assessment workshop 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-26 ACAP advice for reducing the impact of pelagic longline fishing operations on seabirds 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-27 A progress report on the implementation of the IOTC bigeye thresher shark post-release mortality study project (IOTC BTH PRM Project) 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-28 Preliminary assessment of shark bycatch from Kenya’s nascent industrial tuna fisheries 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-29_Rev1 A regional perspective on the Mobulid Ray interactions with surface fisheries in the Indian Ocean 10/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-30 Unprecedented decline in the catches of mobulids: an important component of tuna gillnet fisheries of the Northern Arabian Sea 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-31_Rev1 Standardized CPUE OF Silky Shark (Carcharhinus Falciformis) Caught by Indonesian Longline Fleet in the Eastern Indian Ocean 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-32_Rev1 Can we Derive an Abundance Index for the Silky Shark Based on its Associative Behavior with Floating Objects? 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-33 A Preliminary Stock Assessment for the Silky Shark in the Indian Ocean Using a Data-Limited Approach 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-34 Updated standardized CPUE of blue shark by Taiwanese large-scale tuna longline fishery in the Indian Ocean 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-35 Exploring the use of Length Based Indicators for Blue Shark in the Indian Ocean 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-36 Preliminary Management Strategy Evaluation for Blue Shark in the Indian Ocean Using A Data-Limited Approach 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-37 A Preliminary Stock Assessment for the Shortfin Mako Shark in the Indian Ocean Using Data-Limited Approaches 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-38 Progress report of the post release mortality of the oceanic white tip shark (POREMO project) discarded by EU purse seine and pelagic longline fisheries 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-39 Status of mobulid rays in Sri Lanka 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-40 Assessment of the vulnerability of sea turtles to IOTC tuna fisheries 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-41_WITHDRAWN Cetacean bycatch in tuna drift gillnet fisheries off Pakistan (Arabian Sea) 11/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-42 Ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) in the Indian Ocean 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-43_Rev2 Reviewing effectiveness of management measures on shark landings in Sri Lanka over past five years 04/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-45 Preliminary estimates of seabird bycatch from tuna longline fisheries for the southern Atlantic and southwestern Indian Oceans, based on three different methods 28/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-46 Non-target species interactions in tuna fisheries and its implications in fisheries management: Case of large-mesh gillnet fisheries along the north-west coast of India 06/09/2018
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA03a Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species (scenario 1) 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA03b Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species (scenario 2) 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA04 Catch and effort data - vessels using drifting longlines 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA05 Catch and effort data - surface fisheries 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA06 Catch and effort data - vessels using other gears (e.g., gillnets, lines and unclassified gears) 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA07 Catch and effort data - all gears 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA08 Catch and effort – reference file 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA09 Size frequency data - sharks 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA10 Size frequency – reference file 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-DATA11 Equations used to convert from fork length to round weight for shark species 27/08/2018
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF01 Draft Marine Turtle Call 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF02 IOTC manual for tagging bigeye thresher shark (BTH) with pop-up satellite archival tags (PSAT) to evaluate post-release mortality (PRM) 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF03 Using a Crew-Based Observer Programme as a Platform of Opportunity for Understanding the Distribution of Whales in the Northern Arabian Sea 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF04 Troubled waters: Threats and extinction risk of the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the Arabian Sea and adjacent waters 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF05 An update on Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission shortfin mako and silky shark post-release mortality tagging studies 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF06 Risk to the Indo-Pacific Ocean whale shark population from interactions with Pacific Ocean purse-seine fisheries 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF07 The porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) in the Southern Hemisphere: searching for biological patterns among oceans and regions 12/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPEB14-INF08 Work plan for developing ecosystem report card and assessments in IOTC 13/09/2018
Meeting Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC–2018–WPEB14–R[E] Report of the 14thSession of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch 04/10/2018

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