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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2018	ISC Shark Working Group (2018) Stock Assessment of Shortfin Mako Shark in the North Pacific Ocean Through 2016. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 14th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC14-2018/ SA-WP-11, Busan, Republic of Korea	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices Stock Assessments
2022	ISC (2022) Stock assessment and future projections of blue sharks in the North Pacific Ocean through 2020 (21July) - Final Report. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 18th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC18-2022/SA-WP-06, Electronic Meeting	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2009	IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (2009) Report of the Fifth Session of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC, Mombasa, Kenya	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Line shooter Streamer (tori) lines Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Data Availability and Collection International & National Management Schemes Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2021	IOTC Secretariat (2021) Executive Summaries for seven shark species. In: IOTC - 24th Meeting of the Scientific Committee. IOTC-2021-SC24-Executive summaries-sharks, Online	LL, PS, GN	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates International & National Management Schemes Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2021	IOTC Secretariat (2021) Report of the 17th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. In: IOTC - 24th Meeting of the Scientific Committee. IOTC-2021-WPEB17[AS]-RE Rev1, Online	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates International & National Management Schemes Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Risk Analysis - Open Category Stock Assessments
2022	ICES (2022) Benchmark Workshop for selected elasmobranch stocks (WKELASMO). ICES Scientific Reports	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2020	ICCAT Shark Species Group (2020) Report of the 2020 porbeagle shark stock assessment meeting. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 77:1–88	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2020	ICCAT (2020) Report of the 2019 shortfin mako shark stock assessment update meeting. ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 76:1–77	LL, PS, GN	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories At-Vessel and Post-Release Mortality Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2013	IATTC (2013) Meeting Report. In: IATTC - 4th Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee. SAC-04, La Jolla, California	LL, PS		Management Categories Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2023	Huynh HH, Tsai W-P (2023) Estimation of the population status of smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena) and scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) in the Northwest Pacific Ocean: A data-limited approach. Journal of Sea Research 195:102434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2023.102434	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Demographic Analysis Stock Assessments
2014	Hutchinson M (2014) Shark bycatch and post-release survival. In: International Seafood Sustainability Foundation. http://iss-foundation.org/2014/02/10/shark-bycatch-and-post-release-survival/. Accessed 15 Oct 2014		Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2024	Hoyle SD, Campbell RA, Ducharme-Barth ND, et al (2024) Catch per unit effort modelling for stock assessment: A summary of good practices. Fisheries Research 269:106860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106860	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices Stock Assessments
2017	Hoyle SD, Edwards CTT, Roux M-J, et al (2017) Southern Hemisphere porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) stock status assessment. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 13th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC13-2017/SA-WP-12 (rev. 1), Rarotonga, Cook Islands	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices Stock Assessments
2017	Harry Alastair Varley (2017) Evidence for systemic age underestimation in shark and ray ageing studies. Fish and Fisheries 19:185–200. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12243	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2020	Hanke AR (2020) Updated indicators for ICCAT species that are retained and assessed. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 77:96–104	LL, PS, GN	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2023	Gustavo-Cardoso L, Kikuchi E, Rice J, et al (2023) South Atlantic blue shark stock assessment 1971-2021 using stock synthesis. ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 80:562–588	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2017	Geng Z, Zhu J (2017) Estimating population growth rate for Indian Ocean blue shark (Prionace glauca) using demographic method. In: IOTC - 13th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC-2017-WPEB13-32 Rev1, San Sebastián, Spain	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2022	Geng Z (2022) A preliminary stock assessment of scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) in the Indian Ocean. In: IOTC - 18th Working Party on Ecosystems & Bycatch. IOTC-2022-WPEB18-21, Online	LL	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Species Identification Population Level Assessments Demographic Analysis Stock Assessments
2016	García-Carreras B, Jennings S, Quesne WJFL (2016) Predicting reference points and associated uncertainty from life histories for risk and status assessment. ICES J Mar Sci 73:483–493. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv195	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Risk Analysis - Open Category Stock Assessments
2016	Fu D, Roux M-J, Clarke S, et al (2016) Pacific-wide bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) sustainability status assessment: introduction, datasets and methodology. WCPFC, Bali, Indonesia	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2023	Fernández C (2023) JABBA runs for the North Atlantic blue shark. ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 80:637–655	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2016	Dichmont CM, Deng RA, Punt AE, et al (2016) A review of stock assessment packages in the United States. Fisheries Research 183:447–460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2016.07.001	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2016	de Lisboa O (2016) Report of the 2015 Blue Shark Stock Assessment. ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 72:866–1019	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2021	Cramp J, Moss J, Tanna A (2021) Investigation into the effects of catch time series estimations on stock assessment of Silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the Indian Ocean \| IOTC. In: IOTC- 17th Working Party on Ecosystems & Bycatch (Assessment). IOTC-2021-WPEB17(AS)-18_rev1, Online	LL, PS, GN	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2020	Courtney D, Kai M, Semba Y, Rice J (2020) Summary of intersessional work completed with stock synthesis projections to evaluate a subset of the 2017 conservation measures recommended by ICCAT, related to tac and size limits, to reduce mortality for north Atlantic shortfin mako. ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 76:289–297	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments

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