5th IOTC Working Group on FADs Meeting (WGFAD05)

Meeting:

IOTC ad hoc Working Group on FADs (WGFAD)

Meeting year:

2023

Meeting session:

5

Date:

Wed, 04/10/2023 - 12:00 to Fri, 06/10/2023 - 16:00

Venue country/city:

Online/Virtual

Location:

Zoom

Chairperson:

Dr. Gorka Merino and Mr Avelino Munwane

Objective:

To review the intersessional work on providing scientific advice on FAD management.

Deadlines:

Paper titles are due 30 days before the meeting starts (4 September 2023)
Full papers are due 15 days before the meeting starts (19 September 2023)

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

Documents

Meeting Report
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-R[E]	Report of the 5th IOTC Working Group on FADs	30/11/2023

Datasets
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA01	FAD activity data (2013-2022)	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA02	Effort data for Supply vessels (2014-2022)	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA03	Instrumented buoy data (January 2020 - June 2023)	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA04	Retained catches by fleet, year, gear, IOTC area and species	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA05	Catch and effort data - surface fisheries	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA06	Size frequency data - Bigeye tuna (BET)	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA07	Size frequency data - Skipjack tuna (SKJ)	29/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-DATA08	Size frequency data - Yellowfin tuna (YFT)	29/09/2023

Meeting documents
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-01a	Draft agenda WGFAD05	13/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-01b_Rev2	Draft annotated agenda WGFAD05	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-02_Rev1	List of documents	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-03	A recent overview of the large-scale purse seine fishery operating in the Indian Ocean with drifting Fish Aggregating Devices	02/10/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-04	Assessing the response of Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) stock to variations in DFAD fishing effort	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-05_Rev1	Significant underreporting of bycatch and ecosystem impacts in tuna purse seine fisheries	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-06	The jelly-FAD: New results on its performance	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-07	Guidelines to reduce the impact of drifting Fish Aggregating Devices on sea turtles	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-08	Assessing Drifting Fish Aggregating Device (dFAD) Abandonment under International Marine Pollution Law	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-09	Evidence of ongoing non-compliance of drifting FADs, and the associated impacts this has on Indian Ocean biodiversity	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-10	ISSF Workshop On Different Approaches to Limit the Number of FADs in the Oceans:	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-11_Rev1	Review of drifting FAD Closures across tuna RFMOs, their histories, context and socioeconomic considerations	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-12_Rev2	Should we manage drifting FADs with closures in IOTC ? What can we learn from experience in other RFMOs?	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-13	Responses of tuna stocks to temporal closures in the Indian Ocean	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-14	Is FAD fishing an ‘economic trap’? Effects of a seasonal closure on the IO purse-seine tuna fishery	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-15	Size composition of yellowfin and bigeye tuna in IOTC fisheries	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-16	TS measurements of ex-situ yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and frequency-response discrimination for tropical tuna species	26/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-17_Rev1	A review of fisheries closures in tropical tuna RFMOs	28/09/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-18	Developing a data standard for the retrieval of abandoned and lost FADs in the Indian Ocean	27/09/2023

Reference Documents
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD05-FAD_Form	IOTC drifting FOB data collection form	06/10/2023
Res 23/09	Resolution 23/09 On a Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) Working Group	02/10/2023