1. TDW-13: 8-12th April 2019, Noumea, New Caledonia
Annual Catch Estimates
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TDW-13: 8-12th April 2019, Noumea, New Caledonia

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Summary
What are ACE
Requirements & Area covered
Purpose of ACE
Excel templates & Guidelines
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3. Annual Catch Estimates
What are they ?
Total catches (Mt)
by species
for a fishing fleet
covering a calendar year
WCPFC reporting obligation

4. Annual Catch Estimates
WCPFC Essential Requirements (obligations)
Annual catch by GEAR and SPECIES
No. of ACTIVE Vessels by size class
Calendar Year
WCPFC CONVENTION AREA
NATIONAL FLEET
The deadline 30th APRIL
Indication on how they were determined
Estimates of DISCARDs now required ...
Detailed WCPFC requirements:

5. Annual Catch Estimates
WCPFC Convention Area

6. Annual catch estimates
must be provided for the other areas in some cases.
Subarea needed for stock assessment purpose

7. Annual Catch Estimates
Why ?
Concise representation of actual catch (total removals)
Snapshot comparison between years, fleets, gears, fisheries, etc. => indication of the trends over time
Indication of all data collected in the tuna fishery
Used to produce economic indicators (value of catch)
All contained in the WCPFC Tuna Fishery Yearbook
Totals removal: actual catch actually accounts for all fish that was caught and therefore removed from the stock (retained AND discarded)
Value of catch: summary presented at the WCPFC, making use of the countries ACE
Yearbook available for download from the Scientific Data section of WCPFC web site

8. CONSERVATION OF THE STOCKS
Annual Catch Estimates
Why ?
CONSERVATION OF THE STOCKS
DATA
e.g. ACE
ANALYSES
Stock assessments
In the end, better sustainability of tuna fisheries
SCIENTIFIC ADVICE
MANAGEMENT MEASURES

9. Annual Catch Estimates
How ?
Guidelines
DORADO REPORTS
Read & Run
CSV output
ACE template
Data transfer
EXCEL templates

10. Annual Catch Estimates
DORADO online reporting tool

11. Annual Catch Estimates
Transfer Dorado CSV output to EXCEL template
CSV from DORADO
Recon Report #2.2.3

12. Annual Catch Estimates
EXCEL template work + +

13. OUTPUT FROM EXCEL TEMPLATE transferred here

14. Annual Catch Estimates
Raised catches – see Dorado Reports
The higher the coverage, the closer to reality is the estimation

15. Annual Catch Estimates
Call one of us if needed
Category you fit into
Action
Logsheet coverage is very high in TUFMAN2
Follow Guidelines
Logsheet coverage not so good in TUFMAN2
Follow Guidelines, then see SPC
Very few data for my fleet
See SPC
My domestic fisheries are complex
None of the above
Observer data exist in TUFMAN2
Observer data doesn’t exist in TUFMAN2

16. Download all material on HTTP://BIT.LY/ACE13
Annual Catch Estimates
Download documents & guides
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Guidelines – Steps to produce ACE (PDF) -> READ IT FIRST, then go step by step
ACE Excel templates (XLSX) -> will need to be filled in (instructions in the guidelines)

17. Let’s get started ... soon ! HTTP://BIT.LY/ACE13 Download GUIDELINES
This work needs to be completed by the end of the workshop !
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You can start your work this afternoon

18. Thank You
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