Allocation Estimations

Work Plan for allocation of fishing opportunities

During its 22nd Session (IOTC-2018-S22-R), The Commission agreed to the following Program of Work for the allocation of fishing opportunities (2018-2019):

1. Catch histories: The IOTC Secretariat shall provide estimates of each CPCs historical catch from 1950-2016, for albacore, bigeye tuna, skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna and swordfish, to all CPCs for review, in accordance with:

• paragraph 15 of Proposal K Rev1 (proposal by 10 coastal states), or any subsequent revision provided to the IOTC Secretariat, no later than 15 June 2018 (Data). [Last update 06/02/2019]
• paper IOTC-2018-S22-INF01 (Proposal by the EU), or any subsequent revision provided to the IOTC Secretariat, no later than 15 June 2018 (Data). [Last update 06/02/2019]

2. The IOTC secretariat were then asked to develop draft terms of reference for the hiring of an independent consultant, to develop allocation models based on the documents referred to in point 1 above, or any subsequent revision (to be provided by the proponents as soon as practicable).

The independant consultant was subsequently selected by a vote amongst CPCs and communicated via the IOTC webpage to all parties.

Ongoing communication and feedback

In December 2018, the secretariat received a revised proposal from 11 coastal states. This builds on the methodology proposed in Proposal_K_Rev1. This revised proposal can be viewed by clicking here.

In order to conduct this work with the maximum possible transparency, all comments to this (and other) proposal(s), as well as preliminary estimations from the consultant will be uploaded to this page.

Preliminary Results

The first set of results for each proposal have been made available since the 14th of January 2019 while a second version was provided on the 6th of February. The consultants latest report can be downloaded by clicking here. [Last update 06/02/2019]

The Simulations can be downloaded below. Please note these results are very preliminary and are made available here for Member country feedback and discussion.

Simulations from the proposal from the Coastal States can be downloaded by clicking here [Last update 06/02/2019] with the simulation code available here. [Last update 06/02/2019]

Simulations from the EU proposal can be downloaded by clicking here [Last update 06/02/2019] with the simulation code available here [Last update 06/02/2019].