26th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT26)

Meeting:

Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT)

Meeting year:

2024

Meeting session:

26

Date:

Mon, 28/10/2024 - 09:00 to Sat, 02/11/2024 - 17:00

Venue country/city:

Seychelles

Location:

Eden Bleu Hotel

Chairperson:

Dr Gorka Merino

Vice-Chairperson:

Dr Shiham Adam

Deadlines:

Meeting Participation Fund applications due 45 days before meeting starts (13 September 2024)
Paper titles are due 30 days before the meeting starts (28 September 2024)
Full papers are due 15 days before the meeting starts (13 October 2024)

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

Meeting information documents

Title	File
26th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT26)

Documents

Datasets
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA01_Rev1	Stock assessment inputs - Yellowfin tuna (YFT)	01/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA03_Rev1	Annual amount of fish caught and retained	16/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA04_Rev1	Geo-referenced catch and effort data - Longline fisheries	16/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA05	Geo-referenced catch and effort data - Surface fisheries	13/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA06	Geo-referenced catch and effort data - Coastal fisheries	13/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA07_Rev1	Geo-referenced catch and effort data - All fisheries	16/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA08	Geo-referenced catch and effort data - Reference file	13/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA09	Geo-referenced size-frequency data - Yellowfin tuna (YFT)	25/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA10	Geo-referenced size-frequency data - Bigeye tuna (BET)	25/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26(AS)-DATA11	Geo-referenced size-frequency data - Skipjack tuna (SKJ)	25/09/2024

Meeting documents
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-01a	Agenda for the 26th Working Party on Tropical Tunas	19/09/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-01b_Rev1	Annotated agenda of the 26th Working Party on Tropical Tunas	12/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-02	List of documents for the 26th Working Party on Tropical Tunas	14/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-03.1	Overview of Indian Ocean tropical tuna fisheries	25/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-03.2_Rev2	Review of Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna statistical data	25/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-05	Revision of the WPTT program of work	12/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-06	Tropical Tuna Landings at Fishing Ports in Thailand During 2021-2023	16/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-07	Review of Oman’s data collection system and statistics	23/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-09	Proposal of an online digital ocean atlas for the Indian Ocean	12/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-11_Rev1	Preliminary 2024 stock assessment of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean	23/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-12_Rev1	Preliminary stock assessment for Indian Ocean Yellowfin tuna using Bayesian surplus production model (JABBA)	27/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-13	Preliminary stock assessment for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean using age structured assessment program (ASAP)	28/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-14_Rev1	Enhancing Precision in Age Estimation of Indian Ocean Skipjack Tuna Using Refined Otolith and Fin Spine Criteria	23/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-15	YouTube video to facilitate the identification of Yellowfin and Bigeye tuna	12/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-16_Rev1	Influence of bait type on bigeye tuna catch rates in Sri Lanka	14/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-19	Protocol for age estimation of skipjack tuna in the western Indian Ocean using first dorsal fin spines	23/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-20	Protocol for the age estimation of skipjack tuna in the western Indian Ocean using transversely sectioned otoliths	23/10/2024

Information papers
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-INF01	Estimating yellowfin selectivity using a multigear length-based catch curve	26/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-INF02	Technical report on the re-estimation of Indonesia’s annual catch data for the period 1950-2022	22/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-INF03	Standardising composition data for non-representative sampling and climate influences: Application to WCPFC sharks and tuna	29/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-INF04	Independent review of recent IOTC yellowfin tuna assessment	28/10/2024
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-INF05	Environmental indicators to inform ocean trends and state	11/11/2024

Meeting Report
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2024-WPTT26-R	Report of the 26th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Tropical Tunas	17/11/2024