http://www.spc.int/oceanfish Secretariat of the Pacific Community - Oceanic Fisheries Programme - Latest news, announcements, and additions to the web site Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:43:59 GMT FeedEdit http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/oceanfish_news.htm The news, latest web site additions and announcements from the Oceanic Fisheries Programme have been made available through RSS newsfeed, making it also available to news aggregators users - RSS: http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/oceanfish_newsfeed.xml 25 Jan 2006 http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/Html/Statistics/Yearbook/index.htm Editions of the SPC Tuna Fishery Yearbook for 1992–1997 presented catch statistics for the SPC Statistical Area, which encompasses the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of SPC member countries and territories and the adjacent high seas. Starting with the edition of the Yearbook for 1998, the tables were modified to present catch statistics for the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). The WCPO Area (Figure 1) was established for statistical purposes at the Twelfth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 16–23 June 1999, Tahiti, French Polynesia (Anon. 1999). [...] 09 Nov 2005 http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/Html/Statistics/DataCat/DATACAT.htm The Oceanic Fisheries Programme (OFP) of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is responsible for compiling regional tuna fisheries data. The main database maintained by the OFP comprises all catch and effort data received and processed by the Statistics Section. Extensive holdings of length frequency data, unloadings data, data from tagging programmes and data collected during observer trips are also maintained. [...] 05 Sep 2005 http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/Html/SCTB/Data/index.asp At the Eleventh Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish (SCTB), 28 May - 6 June 1998, Honolulu, SCTB established that catch and effort data grouped by time period and geographic area, for all fishing nations combined, are considered to be in the public domain. To download public domain catch and effort data for driftnet, longline, pole-and-line and purse seine, click on the links below. Each self-extracting zip EXE file contains two files: (1) a Microsoft Visual FoxPro 2.0 DBF file containing the data; (2) a text file containing the field names and formats for the DBF file, and notes on the sources, coverage and quality of the data. [...] 02 Sep 2005 http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/Html/WCPFC/SC1/scientific_committee.htm Report and documents from the WCPFC-SC1 meeting 22 Aug 2005 http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/Docs/Research/wcptf03.htm The tuna fishery in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO, west of 150°W) is diverse, ranging from small-scale, artisanal operations in the coastal waters of Pacific states, to large-scale, industrial purse-seine, pole-and-line and longline operations both in the exclusive economic zones of Pacific states and in international waters (high seas). The main species targeted by these fisheries are skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), bigeye tuna (T. obesus) and albacore tuna (T. alalunga). [...] 02 May 2005