2008/09
Stock Assessment Workshops
Online training – greater participation needed!
After the 2007 workshop
review identified an urgent need for the development of an online training/revision tool that
would enable workshop participants to maintain and build their knowledge and understanding of stock assessment in between annual workshops,
OFP-SPC sought and gained the following endorsement from FFA member countries
1.Endorsement by
countries/territories for the development of the online training/revision
facility.
2.A commitment by
department heads to allow the workshop participants to devote at
least ½ a day per month to online training.
3.A commitment by participants themselves to
undertake the training
Subsequently,
OFP-SPC developed a preliminary online training website on which revision
exercises and materials could be posted for workshop participants to
access.
Two
revision training exercises were undertaken in the period between the 2007 and 2008
workshops. Participation in the first exercise was reasonable (50%),
but very poor in the second exercise (20%), and the exercises were
ceased due to a lack of participation.
Given the
resources devoted to the online training, OFP is seeking some reassurance that
this endeavour will have better participation in future.
It was noteworthy that at the 2008 workshops, the three best
performing participants had all taken part in both online revision
exercises
Subcomponent 1.2 Stock Assessment
