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17th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT17)

Meeting: 
Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT)
Meeting year: 
2015
Meeting session: 
17
Date: 
Fri, 23/10/2015 (All day) to Wed, 28/10/2015 (All day)
Venue country/city: 
Montpellier, France
Location: 
TBA
Chairperson: 
Dr M. Shiham Adam (Maldives)
Vice-Chairperson: 
Dr. Gorka Merino (EU,Spain)
Summary: 

DEADLINES: Papers for consideration during the WPTT meeting are due no later than 15 days before the commencement of the session.

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Meeting information documents

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Documents

Meeting Report
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-R[E] Report of the 17th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Tropical Tunas 03/11/2015
Datasets
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA01 Rev_1 Tropical tunas datasets available (22 September 2015) 17/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA02 Yellowfin tuna (YFT) data for Stock Assessment 17/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA03 Japanese LL standardized CPUE data for yellowfin from 1963 to 2014 24/08/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA04 Nominal Catches per Fleet, Year, Gear, IOTC Area and species 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA05 Catch and Effort - Longline 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA06 Catch and Effort - vessels using pole and lines or purse seines 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA07 Catch and Effort - Coastal 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA08 Catch and Effort - all vessels 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA09 Catch and Effort - reference 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA10 Size Frequency - Tropical tuna species 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA11 Size frequency - reference 10/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA12 DATA- Tropical tunas Equations 14/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA13 Catch-at-Size (CAS) and Catch-at-Age (CAA) files for Yellowfin raised to total catches 17/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA14 Japanese longline CPUE for bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM from 1960 to 2014 22/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA15 Japanese longline standardized CPUE data for yellowfin tuna from 1963 to 2014 regions aggregated 02/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA16 India standardised CPUE for yellowfin tuna from 1981 to 2012 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA17 Taiwan-China longline standardised CPUE series for bigeye and yellowfin tuna from 1979 to 2013 24/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-DATA18 European Union (and associated) purse seine fleets standardised CPUE series for yellowfin tuna from 1984 to 2014 25/10/2015
Information papers
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF01 Guidelines for the presentation of CPUE standardisations and stock assessment models 29/01/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF02 2015 ISSF Stock Assessment Workshop “Characterising uncertainty in stock assessment and management advice” 25/06/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF03 Female tuna reproductive cycle - Protocol for histology analysis and reproductive studies 29/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF04 Resolution 14/02 For the conservation and management of tropical tunas stocks in the IOTC area of competence 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF05 Resolution 05/01 On conservation and management measures for bigeye tuna 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF06 Resolution 03/01 On the limitation of fishing capacity of Contracting Parties and Cooperating Non-Contracting Parties 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF07 Descriptive analyses of the Korean Indian Ocean longline fishery, focusing on tropical areas 08/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF08 Descriptive analyses of the Japanese Indian Ocean longline fishery, focusing on tropical areas 08/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-INF09 Descriptive analyses of the Taiwanese Indian Ocean longline fishery, focusing on tropical areas 08/10/2015
Meeting documents
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-01a Agenda of the 17th Working Party on Tropical Tunas 26/12/2014
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-01b Draft: Annotated agenda of the 17th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (25 October 2015) 16/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-02 Draft: List of documents for the 17th Working Party on Tropical Tunas (25 October 2015) 30/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-03 Outcomes of the 17th Session of the Scientific Committee 02/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-04 Outcomes of the 19th Session of the Commission 02/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-05 Review of Conservation and Management Measures relevant to tropical tunas 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-06 Progress made on the recommendations of WPTT16 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-07 Rev_1 Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for tropical tunas 09/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-08 Revision of the WPTT Program of Work (2016–2020) 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-09 Outline of climate and oceanographic conditions in the Indian Ocean: an update to August 2015 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-10 A review of the catch of tropical tunas from longline and purse seine vessels licensed in Mauritius 08/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-12 Statistics of the European Union and associated flags purse seine fishing fleet targeting tropical tunas in the Indian Ocean during 1981-2014 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-13 Statistics of the purse seine Spanish fleet in the Indian Ocean (1990-2014) 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-14 Rev_1 Evaluating the efficiency of tropical tuna purse seiners in the Indian Ocean: first steps towards a measure of fishing effort 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-15 Withdrawn 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-16 Analysis of sex ratio by length class of yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) caught by Indonesian longliners in the eastern Indian Ocean 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-17 Review of yellowfin tuna fisheries in the Maldives 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-18 Preliminary evaluation of differences in habitat quality between FADs-associated and unassociated schools of yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-19 Opportunistic dietary nature of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares): Occurrence of polythene and plastic debris in the stomach 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-20 Withdrawn 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-21 Temporal and spatial patterns in the catch ratio of adult yellowfin for the West Indian purse seine fishery (1984-2014) 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-22 Size distribution of Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares in China longline fishery 08/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-23 Report of the 2nd CPUE Workshop on Longline Fisheries, 30 April – 2 May 2015 02/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-24 Standardization of distant water tuna longline hooking rate for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) from Fishery Survey of India fleet (1981–2012) 06/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-25 Updated CPUE standardizations for bigeye and yellowfin tuna caught by Taiwanese longline fishery in the Indian Ocean using generalized linear model 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-26 Update of standardized Japanese longline CPUE for yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean and consideration of standardization methods 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-27 DRAFT: Preliminary stock assessment of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Indian Ocean by using Bayesian biomass production model 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-28 DRAFT: Stock assessment of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Indian Ocean by SCAA (Statistical-Catch-At-Age) (1950-2014) 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-29 Withdrawn 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-30 DRAFT: Stock assessment of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean using Stock Synthesis 17/09/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-31 Preferred habitat of tropical tuna species in the Eastern Atlantic and Western Indian Oceans: a comparative analysis between FAD-associated and free-swimming schools 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-32 Rev_1 Technological and fisher’s evolution on fishing tactics and strategies on FADs vs. non-associated fisheries 22/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-33 Verification of the limitation of the number of FADs and best practices to reduce their impact on bycatch fauna 22/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-34 Japanese longline CPUE for bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean standardized by GLM 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-35 An operating model for the Indian Ocean skipjack tuna fishery 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-36 IOTC bigeye and yellowfin tuna management strategy evaluation (MSE) software development progress update 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-37 Withdrawn 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-38 Tuna longline fishery in the east Indian Ocean 01/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-39 Tropical tuna catch in Iran 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-40 Withdrawn 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-41 Rev_1 Seychelles auxiliary vessels in support of purse seine fishing in the Indian Ocean during 2005–2014: summary of a decade of monitoring 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-42 Rev_1 Vertical behavior and habitat utilization of yellowfin and bigeye tuna in the South West Indian Ocean inferred from PSAT tagging data 12/10/2015
Stock Assessment Input and Output files
Reference Title Available on File
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-SAF01 Yellowfin tuna Bayesian Biomass Production Model (BBPM) (see Paper 27) 07/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-SAF02 Yellowfin tuna Statistical-Catch-At-Age (SCAA) (see Paper 28) 12/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-SAF03 Withdrawn 15/10/2015
IOTC-2015-WPTT17-SAF04 Yellowfin tuna Stock Synthesis (SS3) (see Paper 30) 15/10/2015

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