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18th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (WPEB18)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (WPEB)
Meeting year: 
2022
Meeting session: 
18
Date: 
Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:00 to Fri, 09/09/2022 - 16:00
Venue country/city: 
Online/Virtual
Location: 
TBD
Chairperson: 
Dr Mariana Tolotti
Vice-Chairperson: 
Mr Mohammed Koya and Dr Charlene da Silva
Deadlines: 
  •  Paper titles  are due 30 days before the meeting starts (6 August 2022)
  •  Full papers are due 15 days before the meeting starts (21 August 2022)

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

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Documents

Meeting Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-R_rev1 Report of the 18th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch 24/10/2022
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA03 Nominal catches by fleet, year, gear, IOTC area and species 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA04 Catch and effort data - vessels using drifting longlines 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA05 Catch and effort data - surface fisheries 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA06 Catch and effort data - vessels using other gears (e.g., gillnets, lines and unclassified gears) 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA07 Catch and effort data - all vessels 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA08 Catch and effort data - reference file 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA09 Size frequency data - sharks 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA10 Size frequency data - reference file 11/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18(AS)-DATA11 Equations used to convert from fork length to round weight for shark species 11/08/2022
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF01 Sharks caught in the protective gillnets off KZN South Africa. 10. The dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus (Leseur 1818) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF02 Sharks caught in the protective gillnets off KZN South Africa. 8. The great hammerhead shark Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF03 Sharks caught in the protective gillnets off KZN South Africa. 11. The scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF04 Sharks caught in the protective gillnets off KZN South Africa. 9. The spinner shark Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller and Henle) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF05 Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Juvenile Oceanic Whitetip Shark Incidental Catch in the Western Indian Ocean 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF06 M-Risk: A framework for assessing global fisheries management efficacy of sharks, rays, and chimaeras 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF11 Draft Report of the multi-taxa gillnet bycatch mitigation workshop 06/09/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF12 Unintended effects of single-species fisheries management 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF13 Predicting bycatch hotspots in tropical tuna purse seine fisheries at the basin scale 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF14 Pre-workshop analysis in preparation for the 2022 IOTC Ecoregions Workshop: “Identification of regions in the IOTC convention area to inform the implementation of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management” 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF15 High bycatch rates of manta and devil rays in the 'small-scale' artisanal fisheries of Sri Lanka 13/01/2023
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF16_rev1 Squid fishing in the northwest Indian Ocean - clear as ink 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF17 Guide d'identification des espèces capturées dans les pêcheries tropicales 25/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF18_rev1 Towards mitigation of seabird bycatch in longline pelagic fisheries: Large-scale effectiveness of night setting and Tori lines across multiple pelagic longline fleets 25/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF19 A decision support tool for integrated fisheries bycatch management 25/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF20 Sightings of whales in the Northern Arabian Sea along the coast of Pakistan in 2021 29/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF21 Harnessing stakeholder knowledge for the collaborative development of mobulid bycatch mitigation strategies in tuna fisheries 02/09/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF22 An update on the recent developments of the IOTC Post-Release Mortality project for the bigeye thresher shark (BTH) 07/09/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF23 Regional workshop on shark conservation and management in the North Indian Ocean 07/09/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-INF24 An overview of morphological data available on sharks at the IOTC Secretariat 14/09/2022
Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-01a_rev1 Draft Agenda of the 18th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-01b_rev2 Draft Annotated Agenda of the 18th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch 01/09/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-02_rev3 Draft list of documents for the 18th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-03 Outcomes of the 24th Session of the Scientific Committee 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-04 Outcomes of the 26th Session of the Commission 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to ecosystems and bycatch 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-06 Progress made on the recommendations and requests of WPEB17 and SC24 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-07_Rev1 Review of the statistical data available for IOTC bycatch species 22/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-08 Status of development and implementation of National Plans of Action for seabirds and sharks, and implementation of the FAO guidelines to reduce marine turtle mortality in fishing operations 07/09/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-09 Revision of the WPEB Program of Work (2023–2027) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-10 South Africa NPOA Sharks II 2022 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-11 Length-Weight relationships for several large pelagic sharks from the Indian Ocean 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-12 Species composition, commercial landings, distribution and some aspects of biology of shark (Class Pisces) of Pakistan: pelagic sharks 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-13 Biological information for most commonly shark and ray species 30/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-14 Status of marine sharks and rays in Southeast Asia 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-15_rev1 Semi-quantitative risk assessment of Chondrichthyan species from coastal Kenya using Productivity and Susceptibility Analysis (PSA) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-16 Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini): An important bycatch of in gillnet fisheries of Pakistan 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-17_Rev1 Bycatch of hammerhead sharks caught by the French pelagic longline and purse seine fisheries in the Indian Ocean (2005-2021) 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-18 Preliminary recovery plan for scalloped hammerhead in the Indian Ocean 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-19_rev1 Update on the CPUE standardization of the blue shark caught by the Taiwanese large-scale tuna longline fishery in the Indian Ocean 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-20_rev1 Update on the CPUE standardization of the shortfin mako shark caught by the Taiwanese large-scale tuna longline fishery in the Indian Ocean 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-21 A preliminary stock assessment of Scalloped hammerhead shark in the Indian Ocean 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-22_rev1 Second IOTC Ecoregion Workshop: identification of regions in the IOTC convention area to inform the implementation of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-23 An update on best practices onboard French and Italian tropical tuna purse seiners of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: outcomes and ongoing projects 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-24 Bycatch of deep dwelling cetacean in gillnet fisheries of Pakistan 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-25 Conservation Status of Albatrosses and Petrels and Advice on Reducing their Bycatch in IOTC Longline Fisheries 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-26 Proposal to develop an IOTC seabird workplan 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-27 Draft Letter of Intent between IOTC and IOSEA 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-28 Modelling the distribution of sea turtles in the Western Indian Ocean based on bycatch data from the French longline and purse seine fisheries 23/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-29_rev1 Carcharhinus falciformis - a massive bycatch in the industrial purse seine industry but systematically underreported and deprived of any protection in the Indian Ocean 29/08/2022
IOTC-2022-WPEB18-30 Fishing, sizes and sex-ratios of blue shark and silky shark caught by Indonesian tuna longline in the eastern Indian Ocean 25/08/2022

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