Status of MP development for Indian Ocean skipjack tuna

Work on an updated Management Procedure for skipjack has been ongoing since 2019. The
current phase of the work began in October 2023, and will continue for a period of one year,
with the objective to: Develop a Management Procedure for Indian Ocean skipjack tuna,
including specification of the data inputs, that has been fully tested using a Management
Strategy Simulation framework.
Specific objectives are:
• Re-visit the possibility of using a model-based Management Procedure based on the
updated CPUE indices to be presented at WPTT25;
• Propose a set of candidate Management Procedures to the TCMP (2024) for potential
adoption by the Commission.
The current report provides a review of work to date, and proposed future directions, for
discussion by the WPM.