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20th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT20)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT)
Meeting year: 
2018
Meeting session: 
20
Date: 
Mon, 29/10/2018 (All day) to Sat, 03/11/2018 (All day)
Venue country/city: 
Mahé, Seychelles
Location: 
Eden Blue Hotel, Eden Island
Chairperson: 
Dr Shiham Adam
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr Gorka Merino
Summary: 

DEADLINES

•       Meeting Participation Fund  (14 September 2018)
•       Paper titles  (29 September 2018)
•       Full papers (14 October 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-WPTT20-R[E] Report of the 20th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Tropical Tunas 16/11/2018
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA02 IOTC Species data catalogues – availability of datasets 09/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA03a Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species - scenario 1 01/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA03b Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species - scenario 2 01/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA04 Catch and effort data - vessels using drifting longlines 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA05 Catch and Effort - Surface fisheries 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA06 Catch and effort data - vessels using other gears (e.g., gillnets, lines and unclassified gears) 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA07 Catch and Effort - all vessels 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA08 Catch and Effort - reference 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA09 Size frequency data - Bigeye tuna (BET) 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA10 Size frequency data - Skipjack tuna (SKJ) 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA11 Size frequency data - Yellowfin tuna (YFT) 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA12 Size frequency - reference 27/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA13a_Rev1 YFT SS3 Stock Assessment inputs - scenario 1 03/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA13b_Rev1 YFT SS3 Stock Assessment inputs - scenario 2 03/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA14a_Rev2 YFT SCAA Stock Assessment inputs - scenario 1 06/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA14b_Rev2 YFT SCAA Stock Assessment inputs - scenario 2 06/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA15 Equations used to convert from fork length to round weight for tropical tunas species 04/06/2019
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA16 YFT joint longline CPUE series 01/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-DATA17 YFT EU purse seine CPUE series 11/10/2018
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-INF01 Using Effort Control Measures to Implement Catch Capacity Limits in ICCAT PS Fisheries 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-INF02 Genomic analysis reveals multiple mismatches between biological and management units in yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) 22/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-INF03 Strength and uncertainties in the results of the TTT software, used to estimate statistics of purse seiners (catch and catch at size) and on the ways to improve these results 29/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-INF04 Iran small-scale tuna longline fishery targeting yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in Oman Sea: A preliminary study 02/11/2018
Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-01a DRAFT Agenda for the 20th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT20) 25/09/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-01b_Rev5 Draft Annotated agenda of the WPTT20 19/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-02_Rev4 Draft List of Documents of the WPTT20 18/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-03 Outcomes of the 20th Session of the Scientific Committee 04/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-04 Outcomes of the 22nd Session of the IOTC Commission 04/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to tropical tunas 04/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-06 Progress since WPTT19 05/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-07 Outcomes of the 2nd Session of the IOTC Technical Committee on Management Procedures 05/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-08 Rev1 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for tropical tunas 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-09 Revision of the WPTT Program of Work (2019–2023) 11/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-10 Outline of climate and oceanic conditions in the Indian Ocean: an update to mid-2018 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-11 Trends of Tropical Tuna catch in Iran 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-12_Rev1 Transshipment of tuna at Port Louis and analysis of the catch of foreign tuna longliners licensed in Mauritius 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-13 Status of fisheries of Yellowfin and Skipjack tunas in Pakistan 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-14 Catch statistic form Tuna Longline Landing at Port of Phuket, Thailand, during 2013-2017 19/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-15 Updating the statistics of the EU-Spain purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean (1990-2017) 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-16_Rev1 Assessment of accuracy in processing purse seine tropical tuna catches with the T3 methodology 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-17 On the Potential Biases of Scientific Estimates of Catches of Tropical Tunas of Purse Seiners the EU and Other Countries Report to the ICCAT and IOTC 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-18_Rev1 Preliminary attempt incorporating oceanographic conditions into CPUE standardization using HSI (Habitat Suitability Index) 24/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-19_Rev1 Determining capture rates of tuna caught in different gear settings in gillnet fisheries Pakistan 15/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-20 Best standards for data collection and reporting requirements on FOBs: towards a science-based FOB fishery management 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-21 Using FADs to Develop Better Abundance Indices for Tropical Tuna 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-22 Which is the best definition for the biodegradable FADs? 26/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-23_Rev1 The use of instrumented buoys to monitor the activity of the purse seine fleet fishing on FADs 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-24 Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Fish Aggregation Device using Particle Image Velocimetry 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-25_Rev1 Recent Advances on the Use of Supervised Learning Algorithms for Detecting Tuna Aggregations Under FADS from Echosounder Buoys Data 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-27 Progress report on development of a spatially explicit operating model for tropical tuna populations 29/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-28 Updated information on catch and effort of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) from Indonesian tuna longline fishery 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-29 Japanese longline CPUE for bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-31 Consultation with the purse seine industry regarding the process of adoption of Harvest Strategies and Harvest Control Rules for IOTC’s tropical tunas 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-32 Indian Ocean Skipjack Purse Seine Catchability Trends Estimated from Bigeye and Yellowfin Assessments 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-33 Preliminary Indian Ocean Yellowfin Tuna Stock Assessment 1950-2017 (Stock Synthesis) 19/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-34 Review of Yellowfin Tuna Fisheries in the Maldives 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-35 Updated CPUE standardizations for bigeye and yellowfin tuna caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean using generalized linear model 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-36_Rev1 Standardisation of yellowfin tuna CPUE for the EU purse seine fleet operating in the Indian Ocean. 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-37 Standardization of bigeye and yellowfin tuna CPUE by Japanese longline in the Indian Ocean which includes cluster analysis 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-38 Japanese longline CPUE for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by generalized linear model 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-39 CPUE standardization of yellowfin tuna caught by Korean tuna longline fishery in the Indian Ocean, 1977-2017 22/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-40 Bayesian Skipjack and Yellowfin Tuna CPUE Standardisation Model for Maldives Pole and Line 1970-2016 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-41_Rev1 Preliminary stock assessment of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Indian Ocean by SCAA (Statistical-Catch-At-Age) (1950-2017) 22/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-42_Rev1 Diagnoses for stock synthesis model on yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-43 Prospects for an effort-based management of Indian Ocean yellowfin stock 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-44 Applying Generalized Linear Models (GLM) for the analysis of catch rates of Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in gillnet fishery of Sri Lanka 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-45 Pelagic longline fishing operation parameters optimization - A case study on targeting bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the Indian Ocean 16/10/2018
IOTC-2018-WPTT20-46 Assessment of the tuna catch composition of a longline vessel in the Kenyan EEZ and the high seas 16/10/2018

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