Research projects
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You can use the Project Search Tool below to browse over the staff’s research projects, including their brief summaries, that are currently under way, or planned for the near future and funded under the 5-year Strategic Science Plan (2019-2023). The summaries include, for each project, background information, a work plan, and a progress report, as well as details of its relevance and purpose, external collaborators, duration, and deliverables; also, for existing projects, an update on activities since the previous year’s report.
This information can also be found on the IATTC-98b-Staff activities and research plan. -
FundedObjectives:
- Staff participation in development and improvement of the south Pacific albacore assessment
- Understand the assessment results, and communicate them to the Commission
01 Jun 2021 - 31 May 2022FundedObjectives:
Conduct an exploratory assessment for bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022FundedObjectives:
Conduct an assessment for South Pacific swordfish01 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021FundedObjectives:
- Staff participation in development and improvement of the south Pacific albacore assessment
- Understand the assessment results, and communicate them to the Commission
01 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026FundedObjectives:
Staff participation in development of the south Pacific blue shark assessment
Understand the assessment results, and communicate them to the Commission01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025FundedObjectives:
- Monitor the South EPO swordfish using indicators
- Continue the research for improving the assessments
01 Jan 2018 - 31 Aug 2018FundedObjectives:
Design, in consultation with the IATTC staff and other relevant scientists, a shipbased line-transect survey for ETP dolphin species, including development of a comprehensive budget for implementation of the survey and analysis of survey results.01 Nov 2022 - 31 May 2024Objectives:
Fully field-test the drone protocol to be used in a main dolphin survey, as outlined by Oedekoven et al. (2021)01 May 2022 - 31 May 2023FundedObjectives:
Evaluate whether permanent separation of dolphin mothers and their calves occurs during purse-seine fishing operations on dolphin-associated tuna.01 Jan 2018 - 01 Jan 2023FundedObjectives:
- Continue technical development of MSE for tropical tunas.
- Provide training and enhance dialogue / communication among scientists, industry, managers and other stakeholders regarding the MSE process for tropical tunas through the facilitation of a series of workshops.
- Elicit alternative candidate reference points, harvest control rules, performance metrics from stakeholders to be tested in addition to the interim ones.