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- Objectives
- Continue regular Bycatch-IDCP program activities required by the Antigua Convention and the AIDCP
- Background
- The AIDCP requires that all trips by Class-6 purse-seine vessels (carrying capacity > 363 t) in the EPO carry an observer aboard; the IATTC observer program covers 50% of trips.
- Observer records are the primary source of data on the purse-seine fishery.
- The Antigua Convention and various IATTC resolutions require that observers collect information on the tuna purse-seine fishery.
- The Bycatch-IDCP program is instrumental in training observers from national programs and under agreements with other organizations.
- Relevance for management
- Observer data are a key element for stock assessments and recommendations by the IATTC scientific staff
- Duration
- Continuous
- Workplan and status
- Continue to process new data. Seek opportunities to improve data collection and processing
- External collaborators
- Coordination with national and regional observer programs is essential and required.
- Updated date: 01 May 2022
- Progress summary for the reporting period
- IATTC staff processed data from 497 observed trips initiated during 2021.
- No alignment of dolphin safety panel in purse-seine net, 2021
- Presentations for the AIDCP seminar were updated with new resolution requirements relevant to operators, and made available to the national programs.