MSC pre-assessment made available

Participants confirmed

Workplan made public

The FIP organized the 6th training workshop on onboard data recording practices;  five crew members attended the workshop and participated in a module on handling and release methods.

Advisory Commission for the Monitoring of Patagonian toothfish fishing activity met with the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture, the FFC, INIDEP and fishing sector reps; INIDEP presented a summary of the stock assessment (1980-2021 period) and the BAC for the year 2023. Biological reference points results and alternatives were also presented. 

Virtual meeting held between INIDEP and CeDePesca; a prospective CASAL software scientific workshop will be held to identify improvements to the current Patagonian toothfish resource assessment model

The second preliminary report of the data collected by onboard observers between October 2021-June 2022 has been made available; Out of 557 monitored hauls, a bird/ marine mammal interaction was recorded 41% of the time.

CeDePesca and INIDEP held a meeting to discuss the outcomes of the scientific workshop conducted in April

FIP scientific framework workshop held in April 2022; topics dicussed included: reference points, MSY and HCR definitions. 

Virtual training workshop was put on by CeDePesca on best practices for logging data onboard vessels.

Virtual meeting held between the Tierra del Fuego Secretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (TFP), CeDePesca, and the onboard oberver program; parties agreed to incoporate the CeDePesca data collection format into the TFP data collection format with regards to habitat and ETP information.

Preliminary data collected through the observer program between Nov 2021- Jan 2022 has been published.

INIDEP presented the draft protocol for the sampling of benthic invertebrates. 

CeDePesca held a virtual meeting with INIDEP researchers to formally present the results of the fishery's MSC pre-assessment and the FIP Action Plan; meeting minutes available

Letter from CeDePesca to the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SSPyA) requesting the history of sanctions in the Patagonian toothfish fishery.

Technical report on the abundance index of juvenile toothfish between 2017-2019 has been made available. 

Increase to PI 2.2.2; partial strategy available for secondary species based on information collected in the the INIDEP Technical Report N° 029/2022. Grenadier caught as bycatch in the fishery are highly likely not to be considered main secondary species.

Increase to PI 3.2.3; sanctions are in place to enforce the law