Alfonsino age protocol development

Recent work on alfonsino otoliths has shown that the techniques used to estimate age from otoliths
have severely underestimated the age of these fish (SC‐09‐29). As such a new ageing technique is
needed. This requires the development of a protocol for ageing, training some ages in this technique
and then testing the technique on a sample set of otoliths.
Key to this process is to get a number of fish agers involved from multiple labs so that all otoliths from
the region can be aged using the same techniques.
Objectives:

Orange roughy stock assessment (2024-2025)

The SIOFA Scientific Committee (SC) provides scientific advice to the Meeting of Parties (MoP) on the
status of stocks and sustainable yields of deep‐sea fisheries resources. In 2018, the SIOFA Scientific
Committee (SC3) conducted the first orange roughy stock assessments in the SIOFA region and
provided advice to the Meeting of Parties on the stock status and sustainable yields for orange roughy.
An updated orange roughy stock assessment was conducted and presented to SC7 in 2022.

Joint MoP-SC Workshop on the Development of Harvest Strategies (WS2024-HSS)

The primary aim of the Workshop is for the MoP to review progress on the development of harvest strategies and to finalise Management Objectives for selected SIOFA stocks (MoP10 report, paragraph 91). The Workshop will focus on management objectives for orange roughy and toothfish (MoP10 report, paragraph 76) and develop a future work plan, including the development of operating models and management strategy evaluation, the draft workplan and an indicative budget.

3rd Meeting of the Working Group to Support the Establishment of the SIOFA VMS (VMSWG03)

The 10th Meeting of the Parties to the SIOFA (MoP10) adopted a CMM setting out the framework of a SIOFA VMS covering all key aspects, including the scope of application, definitions, nature and specifications of the VMS, prevention of tampering and actions in case of suspected breach, use and release of VMS data requiring / not requiring the consent CCPs, closed and interim protected areas, as well as data security and confidentiality Following the adoption of Conservation and Management Measure for the establishment of a SIOFA Vessel Monitoring S

11th Meeting of the Parties (MoP11)


The 11th Meeting of the Parties will take place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from July 1st to July 5th. Note that the meeting of the 8th Compliance Committee will take place, as usual the week before. Please register at your earliest convenience using the registration form attached (MoP-11-ADM-01). Document MoP-11-ADM-05 provides practical information to participants.

4 documents have been provided late: MoP-11-28, MoP-11-29, MoP-11-30 and MoP-11-31.

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