Specifications for MSE trials for Bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic

Abstract

This document is a “straw-man” draft of detailed MSE trial specifications for Bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic which, we suggest, are a desirable outcome from the ICCAT meeting on this topic to be held in Monterey over 21-23 January 2016. Such a specification document requires many decisions at a quite complex and detailed level, desirably after full discussion at the meeting. The fact that specific suggestions have been made below is not to suggest that the authors necessarily consider that those reflect the decisions which should be made. Rather their purpose is to assist clarify the totality and nature of decisions required by way of examples. Given this draft nature of this document, and its intended further development during the meeting, the text has yet to be “polished” (to include references, etc.).