21st Regular Session of the Technical and Compliance Committee

Location:
Pohnpei, FSM
Meeting Dates:
-
Arrangements:
Provisional
Chair:
Mat Kertesz
Submissions Due:
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TCC21 is scheduled for Wednesday, 24 September to Tuesday, 30 September 2025

A Preparatory Meeting for the Heads of Delegation and two IWG meetings will be held on Tuesday 23rd September 2025 at the TCC21 meeting venue in Palikir. The schedule for the IWG meetings is currently being finalized, but the following sessions are tentatively planned for that day: 

  • ROP-IWG: RegionalObserver Programme Intersessional Working Group
  • FAD MO IWG: FAD Management Options Intersessional Working Group

Other IWG discussions will be conducted during theTCC21 Meeting itself.  

TCC21 will be supplemented by the TCC21 website and the TCC21 Online Discussion Forum (ODF).  The results of the ODF will be provided to TCC21 as a Summary of Online Discussion Forum and considered as needed under the relevant agenda items. 

Agenda
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Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
Circ 2025-40 Meeting Notice for TCC21
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-01 Provisional Agenda
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-04 Executive Director's Annual Report on Technical and Compliance Matters
Executive Director
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-05 Cooperating Non-Member Requests for 2026
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-06 Draft IUU Vessel List and Current WCPFC IUU Vessel List
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-07 {placeholder} Proposal for developing provisional CMR at TCC21, incl aggregate tables consideration
TCC Chair and Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-08 {placeholder} Matters related to the issue of CCFS cases older than 24 Months
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-09 {placeholder} Report on progress for implementing the sampling methodology
TCC Chair and Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-10 {placeholder} Matters related to the development of the Provisional List of Obligations for assessment in the CMS
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-11 {placeholder} List of Capacity Assistance Requests and Capacity Development Plans
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-12 Responses in 2025 Annual Report Part 2 on CMM 2013-07
CCMs
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-13 {placeholder} paper on climate change for TCC21
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-14 {placeholder} paper on harvest strategy development for TCC21
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-15 {placeholder} Available data for verifying compliance
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-16 {placeholder} Update from FAD-MO IWG
FAD-MO IWG Chair
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-17 {placeholder} Update on ROP-IWG
ROP-IWG Chair
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-18 {placeholder} Update paper from Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-19 {placeholder} Update on review of CMM 2017-02
Chair of Review of Port State Measures IWG
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-20 Secretariat paper proposed updates to VMS SOPs
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-21 {Secretariat} Update from ERandEM IWG
Interim ERandEM IWG Chair and Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-22 {placeholder} Resources to support CCMs to meet reporting requirements
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-24 {placeholder} Update from HSBIWG
HSBIWG Chair
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-25 {placeholder} Paper related to update of Scientific Data Reporting Requirements
Secretariat and SPC-OFP
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-26 {placeholder} Update from Secretariat on WCPFC Information and Network Security Framework
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-DP {placeholder} Paper for the review and assessment of paragraph 37 of CMM 2009-06
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-DP {placeholder} Paper for the review and assessment of the Commission’s Implementation of CMM 2013-06
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-DP {placeholder} Update from New Zealand on review of CMM 2018-03 (Seabirds)
New Zealand
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-DP {Placeholder} Update from Canada on Review of CMM 2017-04 (Marine Pollution)
Canada
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-DP01 Report to WCPFC TCC on Operation Nasse 2025
United States
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-DP02 Proposed Improvements to the Compliance Case File System (CCFS)
United States of America
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP01 {placeholder} Annual Report on the Commission VMS
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP02 {placeholder} Annual Report on the Regional Observer Programme
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP03 Annual Report on WCPFC Transhipment Reporting
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP04 Annual Report on the High Seas Boarding and Inspection Scheme
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP05 Annual Report on the Record of Fishing Vessels
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP06 Annual Report on the Eastern High Seas Pocket
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP06_suppl Other High Seas Pockets
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP07 Annual Report on Port Inspections and Implementation of Minimum Standards for Port State Measures
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP08 Annual Report on the Administration of WCPFC data access rules and procedures
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-RP09 Annual Report on the performance of the E-reporting Standards and their application
Secretariat and SPC-OFP
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
SC21-EB-IP-01 Project 121 Update: Ecosystem and Climate Indicators
SPC-OFP, CSIRO , MOi , IRD
SC21-EB-IP-03 Update and Workplan on FAD Research
Lauriane Escalle, Jennyfer Mourot and Paul Hamer (SPC-OFP)
SC21-EB-IP-08 Updated ACAP Best Practice Advice on Reducing the Bycatch of Albatrosses and Petrels in WCPFC Fisheries
ACAP
SC21-EB-IP-17 Summaries of longline fishing effort and observer coverage with respect to the review of the seabird bycatch CMM 2018-03
S. McKechnie (SPC-OFP)
SC21-EB-WP-01 WCPFC CMM Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
K. Robertson and M. Baird

Note: Attachments B, E1 to E5 in Excel format compiled in Zip file

SC21-MI-WP-10 Wider Issues for Consideration within the Harvest Strategy Workplan Review
James Larcombe, Graham Pilling
SC21-OP-01 Evidence-Based Monitoring: Molecular Tools for Fisheries Oversight
M. Green and V. Udyawer
SC21-SA-IP-09 Trends in the South Pacific albacore longline and troll fisheries
Sam McKechnie, Graham Pilling, Tiffany Vidal, Peter Williams, and the WCPFC Secretariat
SC21-ST-IP-04 Group Seine Operations of Philippine Flagged Vessels in High Seas Pocket Number 1 (HSP1)
Isidro C. Tanangonan, Marlo B. Demo-os, Jeric S. Jara, Julio Ferrer, Robert Reslin and Alma C. Dickson (Philippines)
SC21-ST-IP-05 Status of observer data management (24July) - Rev.02
Aurélien Panizza, Tiffany Vidal, Colley Falasi, Eparama Loganimoce and Emmanuel Schneiter (SPC)
SC21-ST-WP-01 Scientific data available to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
T. Vidal
SC21-ST-WP-03 Proposed data standardization approaches for improved efficiency
T. Vidal and E.Loganimoce
SC21-ST-WP-09 Summary of bycatch in WCPFC longline fisheries at a regional scale, 2003-2023 (21 July)_Rev.01
T. Peatman and S. Nicol
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
SC21-AR-CCM-01 Australia
SC21-AR-CCM-02 Canada
SC21-AR-CCM-03 China
SC21-AR-CCM-04 Cook Islands
SC21-AR-CCM-05 European Union
SC21-AR-CCM-06 Federated States of Micronesia (8 July 2025) - Rev.01
SC21-AR-CCM-07 Fiji
SC21-AR-CCM-08 French Polynesia (1 July 2025) - Rev.01
SC21-AR-CCM-09 Indonesia (25 May 2025) - Rev.01
SC21-AR-CCM-10 Japan
SC21-AR-CCM-11 Kiribati (10 July 2025) - Rev.02
SC21-AR-CCM-12 Republic of Korea (4 July 2025) - Rev.01
SC21-AR-CCM-13 Republic of Marshall Islands
SC21-AR-CCM-14 Nauru
SC21-AR-CCM-15 New Caledonia
SC21-AR-CCM-16 New Zealand
SC21-AR-CCM-17 Niue
SC21-AR-CCM-18 Palau
SC21-AR-CCM-19 Papua New Guinea
SC21-AR-CCM-20 Philippines (7 July 2025) - Rev.01
SC21-AR-CCM-21 Samoa
SC21-AR-CCM-22 Solomon Islands
SC21-AR-CCM-23 Chinese Taipei (4 July 2025) - Rev.01
SC21-AR-CCM-24 Tokelau
SC21-AR-CCM-25 Tonga
SC21-AR-CCM-26 Tuvalu
SC21-AR-CCM-27 United States of America
SC21-AR-CCM-28 Vanuatu
SC21-AR-CCM-29 Wallis and Futuna
SC21-AR-CCM-30 American Samoa
SC21-AR-CNM-32 Ecuador
SC21-AR-CNM-33 El Salvador
SC21-AR-CNM-36 Panama
SC21-AR-CNM-37 Thailand
SC21-AR-CNM-38 Vietnam
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
JWG10-DP-01 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Canada
JWG10-DP-02 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF) (21June2025) - Rev.01
China
JWG10-DP-03 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Cook Islands
JWG10-DP-04 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Fiji
JWG10-DP-05 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF) (21Jun2025) - Rev.01
Japan
JWG10-DP-06 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF) - Rev.01
Korea
JWG10-DP-08 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Philippines
JWG10-DP-09 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Chinese Taipei
JWG10-DP-10 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
U.S.A.
JWG10-DP-11 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Vanuatu
JWG10-DP-12 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
Australia
JWG10-DP-13 Reports on CMM 2024-01 (PBF) and CMM 2024-02 (MCS of PBF)
New Zealand
Symbol Title Date of Issue Last Updated
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-IP {placeholder} Summary of the reports received under tropical tuna CMMs from 2020 to 2025
Secretariat
WCPFC-TCC21-2025-IP {placeholder} Summary of Reporting related to CMM 2015-02
Secretariat and SPC-OFP

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