22nd Regular Session of the Scientific Committee

SC22 will review progress under Project 114 on improving cannery receipt data. The review will cover efforts to expand data coverage through collaboration with CCMs and processor companies, and any updates on a dedicated workshop that SC21 requested of the SSP. 

SC22 will further consider updated analyses demonstrating the value of cannery data as an independent source to improve purse seine species composition estimates. This includes consideration of the limitations of observer data, which currently sample less than 0.2% of catch, and the growing coverage of cannery data, which represent approximately half of total catches.