Oceanic Fisheries Website Country Pageswww.spc.int/OFPMemberCountries

Website development supported by: EU SciCOFish project, Government of New Zealand,

Japan Trust Fund, French Pacific Fund, and SPC member countries

Developed by: a cast of thousands

History• OFP tuna fishery country

reports produced since 1987

• Became National Fishery Assessments

• Then National Tuna Fishery Status Reports (NTFSR)

• Difficult to update often for 22 island members –separate out the easily updatable bits

www.spc.int/OFPMemberCountries

Purpose• Private window into SPC

database for each HOF• Enable tuna data view by

juridisdiction rather than flag• Provide similar data to NTFSR

but more frequent update• Also access country-specific

TUFMAN, CES, ISNRs etc• Assist you in compiling your

own reports: government, WCPFC, preparing for negotiations, advising fishers

• (outputs summaries as data files (csv), graphics, and/or PDF documents)

www.spc.int/OFPMemberCountries

Development• Gradual implementation over past

two years:– Coding – Data quality and gaps– Cross-checking outputs

• Dependent on data we receive, better for some fisheries and countries than others.

• 2,500 pages (to date)

www.spc.int/OFPMemberCountries

Contents• Country overview• Catch and Effort

summaries• Part 1 reports

deadline 7th July 2013

• Oceanographic and bycatch summaries in process

• Downloads• Small print

www.spc.int/OFPMemberCountries

Next steps?• French language versions• Regional pages• EEZ-scale model outputs• Oceanography and bycatch

expansion• Annual trends in observer and

logsheet coverage• Addition of other reports

required by WCPFC

www.spc.int/OFPMemberCountries

Next presenters…• Emmanuel Schneiter

demonstrates online OFP country pages

• Sylvain Caillot demonstrates Tagging website country pages

• Simon Nicol demonstrates Oceanography and Bycatch pages under development

• Comments on work thus far, on future directions, or suggestions for additional EEZ-scale data summaries

Additions to Confidential Country Pages?

• Trends in observer coverage of your EEZ?• Trends in logsheet coverage of your EEZ?• VMS effort analyses (current data is mainly catch and logsheet effort)• Summaries of data you punch into your national TUFMAN database:

•licencing trends?•revenue trends?•fleet reporting compliance?

• etc?

What is important to you?What is within our capability to provide?

Additions to Confidential Country Pages?

• Trends in observer coverage of your EEZ?• Trends in logsheet coverage of your EEZ?• VMS effort analyses (current data is mainly catch and logsheet effort)• Summaries of data you punch into your national TUFMAN database:

•licencing trends?•revenue trends?•fleet reporting compliance?

• etc?

What is important to you?What is within our capability to provide?

If you don’t already have a logon for your “country page”

Contact Emmanuel Schneiter at EmmanuelS @ spc .int