Report of the Second Ad Hoc Meeting on Management of Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southern Indian Ocean - Fremantle, Western Australia, 20-22 May 2002

FAO Fisheries Report No. 677

FIRM/R677
ISSN 0429-9337

Department of AGRICULTURE FISHERIES & FORESTRY - AUSTRALIA

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2002

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Cover illustrations (from top to bottom): Permission to use the illustrations of the orange roughy, black oreo dory and smooth oreo dory kindly given by Sanford Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand. Credit for the illustration of the spiky oreo goes to Peter Young, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia.

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Preparation of this Document

Opening of the Meeting, Election of the Chairman and Rapporteur, Adoption of Agenda and Arrangements for the Meeting

Objectives and Anticipated Work of the Meeting

Reporting of the Meeting

Review of Last Meeting's Report

Country Reports

Reporting on Catch and Effort Data - Research Data

Progress with Documentation of Population Biology of Deepwater Species

Status of Negotiations

Aggregation/Disaggregation of Reported Data

Availability of Catch Data

Predictive Modelling of Deepwater Demersal Resources

Oceanographic Data

Analysis and Synthesis of Data

Statistical Areas

Management

Planned Activities

Ukrainian Contract for FAO

Review of Research Cruises in the Study Area

Future Biological Data Collection

Archiving of Data

Reporting of Data - Meeting Recommendations

APPENDIX I - Meeting Agenda

APPENDIX II - List of Participants

APPENDIX III - Meeting Documents

Meeting Document 02/3 Background Information Global Environmental Facility - Funding - Marine Programmes
Meeting Document 02/4 - South African Commercial Catch Data
Meeting Document 02/5 A Summary of Japanese Trawl Fishery Newly Developed in the Southwest Indian Ocean (FAO Area 51)
Meeting Document 02/6 - A Summary of the 1977 and 1978 Cruises by the Jamarc Trawl Survey on the Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southwest Indian Ocean
Meeting Document 02/7 - Past USSR - Ukrainian Fishing Survey and Exploratory Activities
Meeting Document 02/8 - New Zealand High Seas Fishing Permit HS02-03/XXX/AAA
Meeting Document 02/9 - Predictive modelling of demersal fish distribution in the southern Indian and Southern Oceans

Appendix I Maps of the predicted distribution of Orange Roughy

Meeting Document 02/10 - Population Biology of Some Commercial Deepwater Fish Species of the Southwest Indian Ocean - Report on Progress

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