The SIOFA Scientific Committee (SC) is tasked to provide management advice for three important species (orange roughy, splendid alfonsino and Patagonian toothfish) to the Meeting of parties of SIOFA. CMM 2020/15 (paragraph 5) requires out that the orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) stocks shall be assessed every three to five years. The first stock assessments of orange roughy were conducted in 2018 (Cordue 2018a, 2018b) and the second assessments were conducted in 2022 (Roa-Ureta 2022). The next stock assessment is scheduled for completion for SC10 in 2025.

The SIOFA Scientific Committee (SC) is tasked to provide management advice for three important species (orange roughy, splendid alfonsino and Patagonian toothfish) to the Meeting of parties of SIOFA. CMM-15 (2020) paragraph 5 requires that the orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) stocks shall be assessed every three to five years. The first stock assessments of orange roughy were conducted in 2018 (Cordue 2018a, 2018b) and the second assessments were conducted in 2022 (Roa-Ureta 2022). The next stock assessment is scheduled for completion for SC10 in 2025.

SIOFA Conservation and Management Measures (CMM) 2019/01 directs the Scientific Committee (SC) to provide maps of where vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are known to occur, or likely to occur, in the Agreement Area. The Meeting of the Parties shall act on the advice of the SC in regards with the VME habitat mapping and update its interim bottom fisheries measures.