1st Management Procedures Dialogue

A consultative workshop on the evaluation of management procedures will be held at the Bandarnaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo on Saturday May 31st from 8:30 AM-4:00 PM. The IOTC has embarked on an exercise to conduct an evaluation of management procedures using harvest control rules in view of management objectives identified. Many CPC’s are still unfamiliar with what a harvest control rule is and what the Management Objective for the fisheries are. To illustrate this point, a series of workshops with IOTC Member countries shall be held to inform and enhance dialogue on these elements. Through these dialogues, the IOTC is embarking on an exercise similar to what CCSBT undertook with their member countries in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s and similar to those currently underway at WCPFC and ICCAT. The process shall entail a series of dialogues or consultations, with CPC’s to develop a common understanding of and approaches to best achieve Management Objectives through harvest control rules with limit and target reference points which consider the uncertainties in stock condition and dynamics and the Commission’s tolerable risks of failure in achieving Management Objectives within acceptable time-frames using tiered and feedback based approaches. This is the first of a set of consultative workshops that would need to take place over the next few years.

Sponsored by: Common Oceans / ABNJ Sustainable Tuna Project