2nd Workshop on methods for monitoring the status of eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean dolphin populations
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2nd Workshop on methods for monitoring the status of eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean dolphin populations
09 May - 10 May 2024- Meeting reports
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Agenda
2nd Workshop on methods for monitoring the status of eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean dolphin populations
Agenda items Documents 1 Thursday 9 May - 09:00 - Welcome remarks from workshop sponsors (Mariana Ramos, PAST) 2 09:10 - Opening address (Andre Punt, Chair) 3 09:20 - Background talk: Outcomes and recommendations of the 1st Workshop (Andre Punt, Chair) 4 09:40 - Background talk: Overview of purse seine tuna fishery in the EPO and update on dolphin abundance research since 1st Workshop (Alex da Silva, IATTC Coordinator of Scientific Research) 5 10:00 - Background talk: Description of the operation of a purse seine set on dolphins in the EPO (Enrique Urena, IATTC Observer Program Supervisor and Manager) 6 10:30-10:45 - Coffee break 7 10:45 - Background talk: A review of invasive and non-invasive methods for collecting tissue samples from free-swimming cetaceans (Heidi Pearson, University of Alaska Southeast) 8 11:15 - Background talk: A review of Close-kin mark recapture (CKMR) (John Swenson, U. Mass Amherst) 9 12:00-13:00 - Lunch 10 13:00 - Discussion session: CKMR 11 14:30-14:45 - Coffee break 12 14:45 - Discussion session (cont.): CKMR 13 16:30 -17:00 - Public comment 14 17:00 - 18:00 - Outlining report and research proposal concept notes (Chair/IATTC staff/small groups) 15 19:00 - Group dinner 16 Friday 10 May - 09:00 - Update from IATTC staff/small groups on research proposal concept notes (IATTC staff/small groups) 17 09:30 - Background talk: Digital aerial surveys (Kelly McLeod, HiDef) 18 10:00 - Research proposal: Digital aerial surveys for dolphins in ETP (Zack Johnson, HiDef) 19 10:30-10:45 - Coffee break 20 10:45 - Background talk: The potential for surveying whales using satellite imagery (Caroline Höschle, SpaceWhale) 21 12:00-13:00 - Lunch 22 13:00 - Discussion session: research projects 23 14:30-14:45 - Coffee break 24 14:45 - Discussion session: research projects (cont.) 25 16:30-17:00 - Public comment 26 17:00-18:00 - Outlining report and research proposal concept notes (Chair/IATTC staff/small groups) 27 19:00 - Group dinner -
Presentations
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Background documents
- Considerations for conducting Close Kin Mark Recapture of stocks managed by IATTC
- Review of Contemporary Cetacean Stock Assessment Models
- Review of potential methodologies for estimating abundance of dolphin stocks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
- No-23 2018 Data-available for assessing dolphin population status in the ETP
- No-22 2018 Report of the workshop on methods for monitoring the status of ETP dolphin populations
- No-21 2013 Independent review of the eastern Pacific-Ocean dolphin population assessment