4th IOTC ad hoc Working Group on FADs (WGFAD04) Meeting

Meeting:

IOTC ad hoc Working Group on FADs (WGFAD)

Meeting year:

2023

Meeting session:

4

Date:

Mon, 29/05/2023 - 12:00 to Tue, 30/05/2023 - 16:00

Venue country/city:

Online/Virtual

Location:

Zoom

Chairperson:

Dr. Gorka Merino and Mr Avelino Munwane

Deadlines:

Paper titles are due 30 days before the meeting starts (29 April 2023)
Full papers are due 15 days before the meeting starts (14 May 2023)

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

Documents

Meeting documents
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-01a_Rev1	Agenda for the WGFAD04	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-01b_Rev2	Annotated Agenda for the WGFAD04	23/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-02_Rev1	List of documents for the WGFAD04	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-03	Outcomes of the SC25	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-04	Outcomes of the SS6 and S27	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-05_Rev1	Dynamics of drifting Fish Aggregating Devices used in the large-scale purse seine fishery of the western Indian Ocean	28/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-06	Update on biodegradable dFADS: current status and prospects	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-07	Energy efficiency of the purse seine fishery: FAD vs free swimming schools strategy	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-08	Data from abandoned, lost or discarded drifting fish aggregating devices recovered at sea and ashore in the IOTC area	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-09	No evidence from long-term analysis of yellowfin tuna condition that Drifting Fish Aggregating Devices act as ecological traps	17/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-10_Rev1	Review of strategies for reducing the negative environmental impacts of dFADs	17/05/2023

Datasets
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA01	FAD activity data (2013-2021)	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA02	FAD deployment data (2018-2019)	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA03	Effort data for supply vessels (2014-2021)	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA04_Rev1	Instrumented buoy data (Jan 2020 - December 2022)	23/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA05	Nominal catches by fleet, year, gear, IOTC area and species	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA06	Catch and effort data - surface fisheries	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA07	Size frequency data - Bigeye tuna (BET)	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA08	Size frequency data - Skipjack tuna (SKJ)	09/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-DATA09	Size frequency data - Yellowfin tuna (YFT)	09/05/2023

Information papers
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-INF01	Developing a science-based framework for the management of drifting Fish Aggregating Devices	23/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-INF02	Preserving Coral Reefs: OCEANIKA's actions to safeguard Seychelles coastal ecosystems through the retrieval of abandoned, lost, or discarded dFADs	28/05/2023
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-INF03	Forecasted consequences of simulated FAD moratoria in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans on catches and bycatches	29/05/2023

Meeting Report
Reference	Title	Available on	File
IOTC-2023-WGFAD04-R	Report of the 4th IOTC Working Group on FADs (WGFAD04)	26/06/2023