Meeting Arrangements

• Arrangements (18/05)

• Arrangements (01/06)
  

Provisional Agenda

• Bigeye Assesment Project Planning Meeting agenda

• Agenda

• Statistics Working Group agenda

• Skipjack Research Group agenda

• Albacore Research Group agenda

• Yellowfin Research Group agenda

• Bigeye Research Group agenda

• Billfish and Bycatch Research Group agenda
  

List of Participants

• Participants
  

List of Working Papers

Preliminaries

• Anonymous. Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 28 May–6 June 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Overview of WCPO tuna fisheries & National Fishery Reports

• GEN-1 : Lewis A.D. & P.G. Williams Overview of the western and central Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

Statistics Working Group

• SWG-1 : Lawson, T. Status of data collection, compilation and dissemination. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• SWG-2 : Lawson, T. Estimates of annual catches of target species in the western and central Pacific Ocean. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• SWG-3 : Bigelow, K. Estimating bigeye composition in the purse seine fishery. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• SWG-4 : Coan, A. & N. Miyabe. Comparisons of areas fished by the Japanese and U.S. purse seine fleets in the central-western Pacific. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) & National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) & National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries

• SWG-5 : Lawson, T.   Proposed minimum standards for tuna fishery catch and effort logsheets. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

Research Groups

General

• RG-1 : Bertignac, M. Estimating some potential interactions between fleets in the tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific using a multi-gear, multi-species and age-structured simulation model: a preliminary account. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• RG-2 : Bach, P., L. Dagorn & C. Misselis Species selectivity factors in longline fisheries : Results from experiments in the Society archipelago. Institut de la Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), Tahiti, French Polynesia.

Skipjack

• SKJ-1 : Lehodey, P. Impact of ENSO on surface tuna habitat in the western and central Pacific Ocean. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

Yellowfin

• YFT-1 : Hampton, J. and D. Fournier. Updated analysis of yellowfin tuna catch, effort, size and tagging data using an integrated, length-based, age-structured model. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• YFT-2 : Lehodey, P. and B. Leroy. Age and Growth of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) from the western and central Pacific Ocean as indicated by daily growth increments and tagging data. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• YFT-3 : Bigelow, K. A., J. Hampton, & N. Miyabe. Effective longline effort within the yellowfin habitat and standardized CPUE. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia and National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Japan.

• YFT-5 : Chris O'Brien and Talbot Murray. Sustainable management of highly migratory species in the western central Pacific Ocean: The New Zealand experience at setting total allowable catch. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand

   

Bigeye

• BET-1 : Bigelow, K. A., J. Hampton, & N. Miyabe. Effective longline effort within the bigeye habitat and standardized CPUE. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, and National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Japan

• BET-2 : Lehodey, P., J. Hampton and B. Leroy. Preliminary results on age and growth of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) from the western and central Pacific Ocean as indicated by daily growth increments and tagging data.. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• BET–6 : Hampton, J., M. Maunder, N. Miyabe, and G. Watters. Report of the bigeye tuna modelling workshop. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries.

Billfish and Bycatch Research Group

• BBRG-1 : Campbell, R., J. Pepperell & T. Davis. Analysis of historical charter boat data to assess black marlin strikes rates in the recreational fishery off northern Queensland, Australia. Division of Marine Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart, Australia.

• BBRG-2 : Williams, P., K.A. Bigelow & A.W. Whitelaw. Estimates of longline billfish catch in the western and central Pacific Ocean (1980–1997). Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• BBRG-3 : Whitelaw, A.W. Interactive Session on billfish: Present knowledge - current and future research - priorities. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• BBRG-4 : Whitelaw, A.W. Collaborative gamefish data collection. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• BBRG-6 : Uuzumi, Y. Review of Problems on Stock Assessment of Marlins. Laying stress on the Coverage of Landing and Catch and Effort Information in the Pacific Ocean. National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Japan

• BBRG-10 : Oceanic Fisheries Programme. An update on non-target, associated and dependent species (NADs). Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• BBRG-12 : Ellacott A. Gathering Useful and Consistent Data from Gamefishing and Tournament Clubs. Tahiti Internation billfish association, Tahiti, French Polynesia

MHLC

• MHLC-1 : Hampton, W.J. The convention area. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• MHLC-2 : Williams, P.G. Species encountered in the western and central Pacific longline and purse-seine fisheries. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.

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