20th Regular Session of the Scientific Committee
Agenda Item 6.1.2 Research proposal
SC20 will consider any further proposed research on climate change issues.
SC20 will provide input to the Commission's DRAFT Climate Change Workplan[1].
SC20 will also review a DRAFT WCPFC Climate Change Workplan and a preliminary assessment of selected CMMs for their vulnerability to climate change impacts and consider the need for further work. SC20 will also consider additional climate change-related tasks[2] and cooperation with other RFMOs on activities related to climate change (see paragraph 223, WCPFC20 Summary Record), and provide feedback to inform future work.
[1] Intersessional work is led by co-Chairs from the US and RMI.
[2] i. how to capture potential effects of climate change on WCPFC fisheries and fish stocks; ii. mechanisms to test the robustness of existing and candidate management procedures under plausible climate change scenarios within the MSE framework.
Ecosystems and Bycatch Mitigation Theme
Working Papers
| Symbol | Title | Date of Issue | Last Updated |
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| SC20-EB-WP-02 | Commission’s Climate Change Work Plan and TOR for the Assessment of CMMs Susceptible to Climate Change Impacts K. Kryc and B. Muller |
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| SC20-EB-WP-07 | A review of the scope and feasibility of an assessment of CMM susceptibility to climate change impacts Secretariat and SPC-OFP |
Information Papers
| Symbol | Title | Date of Issue | Last Updated |
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| SC20-EB-IP-01 | Green Climate Fund Regional Tuna Programme Proposal – Adapting tuna-dependent Pacific Island communities and economies to climate change (Refer to SC19-EB-IP-02) SPC-OPF |
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| SC20-EB-IP-03 | A Fisheries Science Vessel for the Pacific – A tool to manage and preserve our common resources and ecosystem (Refer to SC19-EB-IP-03) SPC-OFP |
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| SC20-EB-IP-11 | Pacific Tuna and Ecosystem Research Cruise Project Tawa, A., Ishihara, T., Matsubara, N., Hasegawa, T., Yamaguchi, T., Nagatomo, Y., Okazaki, M., Kusaka, A, Hidaka, K., Kiyofuji, H., Allain, V., Nicol, S., Hamer, P., Pilling, G. |
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| SC20-EB-IP-32 | Origin and fate of mercury in tunas A. Médieu, D. Point, V. Allain, and A. Lorrain |
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| SC20-EB-IP-33 | SEAPODYM: Integration of new data to inform modelling of tuna’s early life stages dynamics L. Bonnin and I. Senina |