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18th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT18)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT)
Meeting year: 
2016
Meeting session: 
18
Date: 
Sat, 05/11/2016 (All day) to Thu, 10/11/2016 (All day)
Venue country/city: 
Seychelles
Location: 
ICCS, Seychelles
Chairperson: 
Dr M. Shiham Adam (Maldives)
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr. Gorka Merino (EU,Spain)
Summary: 

DEADLINES: Papers for consideration during the WPTT meeting are due no later than 15 days before the commencement of the session (21 October 2016)

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Meeting information documents

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Meeting Information

Documents

Meeting Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-R[E] Report of the 18th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Tropical Tunas 23/11/2016
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA01 Datasets available 01/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA02 IOTC Species data catalogues – availability of datasets 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA03 Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA04 Catch and effort data - vessels using drifting longlines 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA05 Catch and Effort - Surface fisheries 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA06 Catch and effort data - vessels using other gears (e.g., gillnets, lines and unclassified gears) 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA07 Catch and Effort - all vessels 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA08 Catch and Effort - reference 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA09 Size frequency data - Tropical Tunas species 19/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA10 Equations used to convert from fork length to round weight for tropical tunas species 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA11 Size frequency - reference 16/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA12 BET SS3 Stock Assessment Inputs 19/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA13 BET ASPM Stock Assessment Inputs 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA14 YFT SS3 Stock Assessment Inputs 19/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA15 YFT ASPM Stock Assessment Inputs 19/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA16 Joint CPUE indices for Yellowfin tuna 20/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA17 Joint CPUE indices for Bigeye tuna 20/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA18 Japanese longline CPUE for bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM from 1960 to 2015 21/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA19 Tawianese longline CPUE for bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM from 1979 to 2015 29/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA20 Tawianese longline CPUE for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM from 1979 to 2015 03/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA21 Japanese longline CPUE for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM from 1960 to 2015 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-DATA22 EU purse seine standardized CPUE for yellowfin tuna (free-school and associated FAD) 28/10/2016
Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-01a DRAFT Agenda for the 18th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT18) 17/08/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-01b Draft: Annotated agenda of the 18th Working Party on Tropical Tunas 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-02 Draft: List of documents for the 18th Working Party on Tropical Tunas 04/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-03 Outcomes of the 18th Session of the Scientific Committee 06/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-04 Rev1 Outcomes of the 20th Session of the Commission 23/09/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to tropical tunas 04/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-06 Progress made on the recommendations of WPTT17 06/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-07 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for tropical tunas 02/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-08 Rev1 Revision of the WPTT Program of Work (2017–2021) 04/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-09 Outline of climate and oceanographic conditions in the Indian Ocean: an update to mid-2016 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-10 Review of Iran fisheries and tropical tuna catch in the Indian Ocean 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-11 Problems facing Somali tuna fisheries 02/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-12 An Overview of the tropical tuna catches by Mauritian Semi-Industrial Longliners 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-13 Japanese longline CPUE for bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-14 Collaborative study of tropical tuna CPUE from multiple Indian Ocean longline fleets in 2016 23/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-15 Stock assessment of Indian Ocean bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) using Age-Structured Assessment Program (ASAP) 13/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-16 Assessment of Indian Ocean bigeye (Thunnus obesus) using a biomass dynamic model 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-17 Stock and risk assessments of bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean based on ASPIC 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-18 Rev1 Stock assessment of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the Indian Ocean using Statistical-Catch-At-Age (SCAA) 04/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-19 Bayesian state-space production models for the Indian Ocean bigeye tuna (Thunnus Obesus) and their predictive evaluation 01/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-20 Stock assessment of bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean for 2016 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-20 (presentation) Stock assessment of bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean for 2016 (presentation) 05/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-21 Length Distribution of Yellowfin Tuna from the Maldives Pole-and-line and Handline Tuna Fisheries 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-22 Assessment of yellowfin tuna caught by artisanal fishers in Kenya between 2013 and 2016 26/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-23 The relationships between muscle fat content and biological parameters in Thunnus albacares in the high seas of the Indian Ocean 18/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-24 A framework for the standardisation of tropical tuna purse seine CPUE: application to the yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-25 Japanese longline CPUE for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by generalized linear model 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-26 Assessment of Indian Ocean yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) using a biomass dynamic model 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-27 An update of the 2015 Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna assessment for 2016 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-28 Fishers' echo-sounder buoys to estimate biomass of fish species associated with fish aggregating devices in the Indian Ocean 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-29 Characteristics of tuna fisheries associated with anchored FADs in the Indonesian Indian Ocean 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-30 Temporal and operational effects on the catch rates of Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in gillnet fishery of Sri Lanka 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-31 Preferred feeding habitat of skipjack tuna in the eastern central Atlantic and western Indian Oceans: relations with carrying capacity and vulnerability to purse seine fishing 24/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-32 IOTC Yellowfin and Bigeye Tuna Management Strategy Evaluation: Phase 1 Technical Support Project Final Report 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-33 Proposals for improved figures in the tropical tunas statistical summaries 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-34 Updated CPUE standardizations for bigeye and yellowfin tuna caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean using generalized linear model 20/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-35 Results achieved within the framework of the EU research project: Catch, Effort, and eCOsystem impacts of FAD-fishing (CECOFAD) 17/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-36 Rev_1 Integrating scientific and French tropical tuna purse seine skippers knowledge for a better management of dFAD fisheries in the Indian Ocean 05/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-37 Sex-ratio, size at maturity, spawning period and fecundity of bigeye tuna in the western Indian Ocean 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-38 Tuna longline fishery by Thail longliners in the Indian Ocean during 2011-2015 21/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-39 Validation of VMS data and identification of fishing activities of the Spanish tuna purse seine fleet 28/10/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-INFO1 Size frequencies of the YFT & BET catches by PS used in the SS3 model 03/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-INFO2_Rev1 Fishery indicators suggest symptoms of overfishing for the Indian Ocean skipjack stock 03/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-INFO3 Status of Tropical Tuna Gillnet fisheries in Pakistan 04/11/2016
Stock Assessment Input and Output files
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-SAF01 Bigeye tuna Stock Synthesis (SS3) (see Paper 20) 18/11/2016
IOTC-2016-WPTT18-SAF02 Yellowfin tuna Stock Synthesis (SS3) (see Paper 27) 18/11/2016

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