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16th Working Party on Billfish (WPB16)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Billfish (WPB)
Meeting year: 
2018
Meeting session: 
16
Date: 
Tue, 04/09/2018 (All day) to Sat, 08/09/2018 (All day)
Venue country/city: 
Cape Town, South Africa
Location: 
The Protea Hotel by Marriott Cape Town Victoria Junction (VJ)
Chairperson: 
Dr Rui Coelho
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr Evgeny Romanov
Summary: 

DEADLINES

•       Meeting Participation Fund (21 July 2018)
•       Paper titles (5 August 2018)
•       Full papers (20 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 Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPB16-R[E] Report of the 16th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Billfish 03/10/2018
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA03a Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species (scenario 1) 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA03b Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species (scenario 2) 16/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA04 Catch and effort data - vessels using drifting longlines 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA05 Catch and effort data - surface fisheries 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA06 Catch and effort data - vessels using other gears (e.g., gillnets, lines and unclassified gears) 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA07 Catch and effort data - all gears 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA08 Catch and effort – reference file 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA09 Size frequency data - billfish species 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA10 Size frequency – reference file 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA11a Data for the stock assessment of Black marlin (scenario 1) 14/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA11b Data for the stock assessment of Black marlin (scenario 2) 16/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA12a_Rev1 Data for the stock assessment of Striped marlin (scenario 1) 17/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA12b Data for the stock assessment of Striped marlin (scenario 2) 18/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA13 Standardization of Black marlin CPUE by Japanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean (1994-2017) 18/07/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA14 Standardization of Black marlin CPUE by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean (1979-2017) 18/07/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA15 Standardization of Black marlin CPUE by Indonesian longline fishery in the Indian Ocean (2005-2017) 18/07/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA16 Standardization of Striped marlin CPUE by Japanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean (1994-2017) 18/07/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA17 Standardization of Striped marlin CPUE by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean (1979-2017) 18/07/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-DATA18 Equations used to convert from fork length to round weight for Billfish species 14/08/2018
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPB16-INF01 Factors related to the decline and rebuilding of billfish stocks in the Atlantic and Indian oceans 06/09/2018
Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPB16-01a Agenda of the WPB16 18/06/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-01b Annotated agenda of the WPB16 08/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-02_Rev2 List of Documents of the WPB16 08/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-03 Outcomes of the 20th Session of the Scientific Committee 08/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-04 Outcomes of the 22nd Session of the Commission 08/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to billfish 08/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-06_Rev1 Progress made on the recommendations and requests of WPB15 and SC20 16/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-07 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for billfish species 23/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-08 Revision of the WPB Program of Work (2019–2023) 09/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-09 Comparing the biology of four billfish species in the Indian Ocean based on Chinese longline observer data 18/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-11_Rev1 High seas billfish catches by Kenyan longliner 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-12 Catch Per Unit of Effort (CPUE) standardization of Black marlin (Makaira indica) caught by Indonesian tuna longline fishery in the Eastern Indian Ocean 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-13_Rev2 Monsoon and temperature effects on sword fish (Xiphias gladius) catches in the high seas of Indian Ocean: A case study in high seas longline fishery of Sri Lanka 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-14_Rev1 Developing surplus production model priors from a multivariate life history prediction model for IOTC billfish assessments with limited biological information 29/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-15_final Bayesian State-Space Surplus Production Model JABBA assessment of Indian Ocean Black marlin (Makaira indica) 03/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-16_Final Bayesian State-Space Surplus Production Model JABBA assessment of Indian Ocean Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) 27/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-17 CPUE standardization of black marlin (Makaira indica) caught by Taiwanese large scale longline fishery in the Indian Ocean 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-18 CPUE standardization of striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) caught by Taiwanese large scale longline fishery in the Indian Ocean 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-19 Stock assessment of Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) in the Indian Ocean using the Stock Synthesis 30/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-20 Genetic population structure of striped marlin (Kajikia audax) in the Indian Ocean, with relationship to Pacific Ocean populations 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-21 Billfishes landings in Phuket ports by foreign vessel 2017 16/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-22 Revision to the IOTC scientific estimates of Indonesia's fresh longline catches 20/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-25 Standardized CPUE of the Indian Ocean striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) caught by Japanese longline fishery: update analysis between 1994 and 2017 13/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-26 Standardized CPUE of the Indian Ocean black marlin (Istiompax indica) caught by Japanese longline fisheries 13/08/2018
IOTC-2018-WPB16-27 Status of Billfish fisheries of Pakistan 05/09/2018

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