Scientific data available to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

Citation
Williams P (2021) Scientific data available to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 17th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC17-2021/ST-WP-01 (Rev.01), Electronic Meeting
Abstract

This paper reports on the major developments over the past year with regards to filling gaps in the provision of scientific data to the Commission.
The review of gaps in 2019 and 2020 scientific data provisions includes the assignment of a tier-scoring evaluation level. There have not been any significant developments in some categories of the main data gaps over the past five years and readers have therefore been referred to the relevant sections in past data-gap papers...

** this paper contains a short discussion of shark data and refers readers to the 2017 paper for more detailed discussion WCPFC-SC13-2017/ST-WP-01