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Welcome to the IOTC website

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is an intergovernmental organization mandated to manage tuna and tuna-like species in the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas. Its objective is to promote cooperation among its Members with a view to ensuring, through appropriate management, the conservation and optimum utilisation of stocks and encouraging sustainable development of fisheries based on such stocks.

Highlights

	The 13th session of the Commission was held in Bali Indonesia from 30th March to 3rd April 2009.


	The 7th Session of the Working Party on Billfishes will be held from the 6 to 10 July 2009


	Calendar of IOTC technical meetings in 2009 is now available


	Report of the performance review panel is now available

2008 Reports

	Report of the Scientific Committee 2008


	The report of the 12th Session of the Commission
	[Click here] for the other documents of the meeting

	Working Parties
	Report on the Working Party on Billfish Report on the Working Party on Tropical Tunas Report on the Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch Report on the Working Party on Methods Report on the Working Party on Tagging Data Analysis Report on the Working Party on Temperate Tunas

Collection of Resolutions

	Collection of resolutions adopted by the Commission (2009 included)

IOTC Circulars

	2009 Circulars
	02-09[E], 03-09[E], 01-09[E], 04-09[E+F], 05-09[E+F], 06-09[E+F], 07-09[E+F], 08-09[E+F], 09-09[E], 11-09[E], 10-09[E], 13-09[E+F], 14-09[E+F], 15-09[E+F], 16-09 [E+F], 17-09[E+F], 18-09[E+F],

	Older Circulars
	2008, 2007, 2006

Quick links

	Vessel record Consult the Record of vessels authorized to fish in the IOTC area.			Validation of IOTC statistical documents A database of Institutions and Persons authorized to validate IOTC statistical documents.
	IUU List Consult the list of IUU vessels.			Working Parties Information on all the IOTC Working Parties.
	Meetings List of scheduled and past meetings.			Resolutions Browse or search the resolutions adopted by IOTC.
	Documents Browse and download documents published by IOTC.			The RTTP-IO tagging website The Regional Tuna Tagging Project of the Indian Ocean (RTTP-IO) has launched it's official website.
	Guide to IOTC data reporting requirements A guide to assist members and cooperating parties meet their reporting requirements is now available. .			IOTC Record of Active Vessels This spreadsheet contains the information reported by IOTC CPC's concerning IOTC Resolution 07/04 (Concerning registration and exchange of information on vessels fishing for tunas and swordfish in the IOTC Area).

Most documents are in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF 5) : get the free Acrobat Reader here.

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last updated : July 1, 2009 / © IOTC 2001-2009