SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE NINTH REGULAR SESSION 6-14 August 2013 Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia Towards an Integrated Shark Conservation and Management Measure for the Western and Central Pacific Ocean WCPFC-SC9-2013/ EB-WP-08

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE NINTH REGULAR SESSION 6-14 August 2013 Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia To improve the estimation of species and size composition of the western and central Pacific purse seine fishery from observer based sampling of the catch WCPFC-SC9-2013/ ST-IP-04

Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED SHARK CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT MEASURE FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FIFTH REGULAR SESSION 10-21 August 2009 Port Vila, Vanuatu An Alternative Estimate of Catches of Five Species of Sharks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean based on Shark Fin Trade Data WCPFC-SC5-2005/EB-WP-02

Conservation and Management Measure 2008‐06 was implemented by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in February 2009 and requires the Commission to work toward providing preliminary advice on the stock status of key shark species in 2010. While the need for shark assessments is thus well‐recognised, catch data necessary to support such assessments is, in many cases, insufficien...

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE SEVENTH REGULAR SESSION 9-17 August 2011 Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia RESEARCH OUTLINE FOR SIZE DATA IN WCPO LENGTH-BASED STOCK ASSESSMENTS

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE SEVENTH REGULAR SESSION 9-17 August 2011 Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia Prospects for effective conservation of bigeye tuna stocks in the Western Central Pacific Ocean WCPFC-SC7-2011/MI-WP-05

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) agreed to close certain high-seas areas in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean to purse seine tuna fishing starting in 2010. These measures have potential economic benefits to the countries surrounding the closed areas and may also have potential stock conservation benefits for tunas. We used a spatially explicit ecosystem model of ...