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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2015	Anonymous (2015) The Seychelles NPOA for Sharks 2007-2010 Review. IOTC, Olhao, Portugal		Sharks and Rays	Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2015	Anonymous (2015) Status of the WCPFC with ER/EM Reporting	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories E-monitoring
2012	Anonymous (2012) KOBE III Bycatch Joint Technical Working Group: Harmonisation of Purse-seine Data Collected by Tuna-RFMO Observer Programmes. ISSF Technical Report 2012-12. International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA.	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Data Harmonisation
2023	Anonymous (2023) ISSF workshop on different approaches to limit the number of FADs in the oceans. ISSF Technical Report 2023-03, San Diego, California, USA	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Management Categories Economic and Social Analysis International & National Management Schemes Policy Development and Knowledge Exchange
	Anonymous Report of the sub-group on electronic monitoring systems: proposal of ICCAT minimum technical standards for EMS in purse seine fisheries targeting tropical tunas	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories E-monitoring
2012	Anon (2012) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - Action Plan for reducing incidental catches of seabirds in fishing gears	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Artificial bait Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2013	Anon (2013) Bycatch Management	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Circle hooks Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Safe handling & release Streamer (tori) lines Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2014	Anon (2014) Ghosts of the Indian Ocean - Olive Ridley Project	PS, GN	Sea Turtles	Mitigation Techniques ALDFG - management of abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear FAD design & management
2015	Anon (2015) Report of Japan’s Scientific Observer Program for Tuna Longline Fishery in the Atlantic Ocean in the Fishing years of 2012 and 2013. CVSP 71:3106–3116	LL	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Fisheries Management Performance
2017	Anon (2017) Recommendations of the Working Group on Bycatch. In: IATTC - 7th Meeting of the Working Group on Bycatch. IATTC-BYC-Recommendations, La Jolla, California	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays
2017	Anon (2017) Summary of IATTC Dolphin Workshop. In: IATTC - 8th Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee. IATTC-SAC-08-05f, La Jolla, California	PS	Marine Mammals	Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices
2017	Anon (2017) Ecosystem Considerations. In: IATTC - 8th Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee. IATTC-SAC-08-07a, La Jolla, California	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Fisheries Management Performance Population Level Assessments Productivity Susceptibility Analysis
2017	Anon (2017) IATTC Ad Hoc Working Group On FADs - Second Meeting (First Part). In: IATTC - 2nd Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on FADs. FAD-02(1), La Jolla, California	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management
2017	Anon (2017) IATTC - 7th meeting of the Bycatch Working Group. In: IATTC - 7th Meeting of the Working Group on Bycatch. La Jolla, California
2012	Anon. (2012) Methods for longline fishers to safely handle and release unwanted sharks and rays = 延绳钓捕捞者对误捕的鲨鱼或鳐鱼等海洋动物的安全处理指引和放生方法 English & Chinese	LL	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release
2018	Anon. (2018) Report of the 2018 intersessional meeting of the shark species group (Madrid, Spain, 2-6 July 2018). ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 75:357–434	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Review and Planning
2021	Anon (2021) Advances on the Collaborative Work to Assess Sea Turtle Bycatch in Pelagic Longline and Purse Seine Fleets (Atlantic and Indian Oceans and Mediterranean Sea). Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 78:155–166	LL, PS	Sea Turtles	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Data Availability and Collection
2010	Anon. (2010) Report of the international workshop on tuna RFMO management of issues relating to bycatch. In: IOTC - 6th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC-2010-WPEB-Inf06, Seychelles	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Fisheries Management Performance International & National Management Schemes
2022	Anon (2022) Suggested improvements to 19/02 that will ensure the effective management of dFADs. In: IOTC - 3rd Ad Hoc Working Group on FADs. IOTC-2022-WGFAD03-20_Rev1, Online	PS		Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2022	Anon (2022) Report of the joint ICES-ICCAT Benchmark Workshop in advance of the North-Eastern Atlantic porbeagle stock assessment. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 79:1–60	LL	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices
2022	Anon (2022) Report of the 2022 ICCAT Intersessional Meeting of the Sharks Species Group. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 79:61–132	LL	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories At-Vessel and Post-Release Mortality Review and Planning Tagging Studies Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices
2022	Anon (2022) Report of the 2022 Intersessional Meeting of the Sub-Committee of Ecosystems and Bycatch. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 79:1–79	LL, PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Review and Planning
2022	Anon (2022) Report of the Sub-group on Electronic Monitoring Systems: Proposal of draft ICCAT minimum technical standards for EMS in pelagic longliners. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 79:367–382	LL, PS		Management Categories Data Availability and Collection E-monitoring
2023	Anon (2023) Report of the Blue Shark Stock Assessment Meeting (hybrid/Madrid, Spain, 17-21 July 2023). ICCAT Collect Vol Sci Papers 80:379–527	LL	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Data Availability and Collection Policy Development and Knowledge Exchange Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments - supporting development of SA
2015	Angel A, Wanless R, Small C (2015) A need for improved reporting on seabird bycatch in IOTC longline fisheries. IOTC, Olhao, Portugal	LL	Seabirds	Management Categories Data Harmonisation

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