Output
1.3.3 Model-based analysis of ecosystem-based management options
Activity 1.3.3.1 Incorporate ecosystem data and
information into existing ecosystem models and refinement of those models as necessary
Activity
1.3.3.2 Use enhanced models and data to assess ecosystem-based management
options
Activity
1.3.3.3 Use enhanced models and data to assess management options targeted
specifically at seamounts
Progress on trophic structure qualitative
models of pelagic ecosystems of different regions in the Pacific were presented by co-PIs at two meetings: PFRP-PI
in Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 2007 and CLIOTOP in La Paz, Mexico, Dec. 2007. This work has been
detailed into a publication that has been submitted in March 2008 to a peer-review paper for the special issue of
the CLIOTOP meeting.
Analysis
of stomach examination data
In progress
To continue
Output 1.3.4 Estimates of levels
of by-catch in WCPO oceanic fisheries
Activity
1.3.4.1 Review historical observer data and methodological development
Activity
1.3.4.2 Estimate of levels of by-catch
Reports:
Lawson. 2006. Scientific aspects of observer programmes
for tuna fisheries in the WCPO. WCPFC-SC2-2006/ST WP-1
Lawson. 2006. Observer coverage rates and reliability of
CPUE estimates for purse seiners in the WCPO. WCPFC-SC2-2006/ ST IP-3
Oceanic Fisheries Programme - SPC. 2007. Estimates of
annual catches in the WCPFC statistical area. WCPFC-SC3-2007/ST IP-2.
Oceanic Fisheries Programme - SPC. 2008. Estimates of
annual catches in the WCPFC statistical area. WCPFC-SC4-2008/ST IP-1.
Further
work on estimation methodology to continue during
2009.
Completed
Subcomponent 1.3 Ecosystem Analysis