SPC Oceanic Fisheries: Tuna statistics, tuna ecology & biology, stock assessement, modelling, standing committee on tuna and billfish

The Oceanic Fisheries Programme (OFP), formerly known as the Tuna and Billfish Assessment Programme (TBAP) was established by the 1980 South Pacific Conference to continue the work initiated by its predecessor project, the Skipjack Survey and Assessment Programme (SSAP). [More]

Pacific Tuna Tagging Project

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Statistics and monitoring has been a core activity of the OFP since its inception in 1981. In the early 1980s, the main priority of the OFP was the establishment of a regional catch and effort database based primarily on catch and effort logsheets provided to SPC by member countries and territories. [more]

The Tuna Ecology and Biology (TEB) section of the OFP undertakes analyses to understand the biological parameters and the environmental processes that influence the productivity of tuna and billfish populations and that are fundamental for stocks assessment and modelling. [more]

Stock assessment and population modelling continue to be major components of the OFP’s work, culminating in scientific advice on the status of the stocks that is provided regularly at both national and regional levels. [more]