22nd Regular Session of the Scientific Committee

Agenda Item 3.2 Evaluation of purse seine fishing activities

Annotation

SC22 will review an analysis that evaluates purse seine fishing activities to better understand relationships between fishing behaviours and strategies, reporting requirements, and estimations of purse seine fishing effort.

SC22 will review a preliminary analysis aimed at comparing logbook positions with VMS in an effort to assess potential biases due to reporting precision and proposed approaches to address the issue, as appropriate.