- Objectives
- Staff participation in development and improvement of the south Pacific albacore assessment
- Understand the assessment results, and communicate them to the Commission
- Background
- The assessment is for albacore in the south Pacific that are covered by both the IATTC and WCPFC
- The IATTC staff provides data and advice for the assessment
- Relevance for management
- The IATTC uses the results of the assessment to provide management advice
- Duration
- Ongoing; SPC to deliver assessment results in the 2021 SC
- Workplan and status
- See WCPFC website for details
- External collaborators
- SPC
- Deliverables
- Report to SAC meetings
- Updated date: 01 May 2024
- Progress summary for the reporting period
- January 2021: Attend the SPC stock assessment meetings for south Pacific albacore
- March 2021: Made a presentation in the SPC pre-assessment workshop (PAW) on the fishery stratification for albacore in the southern EPO
- August 2021: Presented the assessment results in SPC’s 17th regular session of the scientific committee
- May 2022: Present the assessment results in SAC-13
- April 2024: participate in a South Pacific Albacore assessment with emphasis on climate change
- Challenges and key lessons learnt
- Movement scenario is the largest axis of uncertainty in the south Pacific albacore assessment
- The south Pacific albacore stock is healthy and the recent fishing mortality was much lower than the fishing mortality corresponding to MSY
- Spawning biomass decreased fast in recent years due likely to high longline catch
- The stock should be monitored in the future through for example stock status indicators and conduct another benchmark assessment in 3 or 4 years
- The stock assessment report can be found at https://meetings.wcpfc.int/node/12551
- Comments
- The stock assessment report can be found here