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1 3 rd Meeting of the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) Scientific Committee March 2018 Table of agenda items and related papers (current as at 20/03/2018) Agenda Item 1. Opening 1.1 Opening statement from the Chair 1.2 Introduction of participants Related Papers No papers provided for this item. 2. Administrative Arrangements 2.1 Adoption of the agenda 2.2 Confirmation of meeting documents 2.3 Appointment of rapporteurs 2.4 Review of functions and terms of reference SC (01) Provisional Agenda Rev3 SC (03) List of meeting Documents SC (04) Table of agenda items and related papers SC (05) SC ToR SC (06) SC3 List of participants 3. Annual National reports SC (01) Annual National Report Cook Islands SC (02) Annual National Report Japan SC (03) Annual National Report Thailand SC (04) Annual National Report Australia SC (05) Annual National Report EU SC (06) Annual National Report French Territory SC (07) Annual National Report Korea 4. Current and historical status of fishing activities SC-03-INFO-14 Comoros status of fishing activity - historic catches within EEZ SC-03-INFO-15 Historical catch by China on orange roughy in SIOFA Area 4.1 Submission and consideration of historical catch and effort data

2 4.2 Spatial Extent of historical fishing effort data 4.3 Overview of SIOFA fisheries Scientific Data Standards 5.1 SIOFA scientific database 5.2 Observer coverage SC (01) National Observer Program Thailand SC-03-INFO-01 Rev1 MoU for the accreditation and coordination of Southwest Indian Ocean Coastal State Scientific Observers at sub-regional level and the exchange of Observer data 6. Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems SC (01) Proposal to create a permanent group for Ecosystem Monitoring and Management SC (02) New data acquisition protocol for benthos bycatch in the French fisheries of the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean 6.1 Maps of where VMEs are known to occur, or likely to occur, in the Area 6.2 Bottom Fisting Impact Assessments (BFIAs) SC (01) BFIA Japan bottom trawl SC (02) BFIA Japan midwater trawl SC (03) BFIA Japan longline SC (04) BFIA Cook Islands SC (05) Vessel Seabird Management Plan Cook Islands SC (06) BFIA Thailand SC (07) BFIA Australia SC (08) BFIA Review Australia SC (09)Rev1 BFIA EU SC (10) BFIA French Territory 6.3 SIOFA Standard protocols for future protected areas designation SC (01) Protected areas protocol review

3 SC-03-INFO-04 Considerations on the Purpose of Benthic Protected Areas in the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement Area. R. Shotton, SIOFDA SIOFA Protected areas working group SC-03-INFO-06 Summary of the Nov 2017 meeting of the informal protected areas steering committee SIOFA Proposed protected areas SC (01) Proposal EAST BROKEN RIDGE SC (02) Proposal ATLANTIS BANK SC (03) Proposal BANANA SC (04) Proposal BRIDLE SC (05) Proposal CORAL SC (06) Proposal DEL-CANO-RISE SC (07) Proposal FOOLS-FLAT SC (08) Proposal GULDAN DRAAK SC (09) Proposal MID INDIAN RIDGE SC (10) Proposal MIDDLE-OF-WHAT (MOW) SC (11) Proposal RUSKY-KNOLL SC (01) Proposal WALTERS SHOAL SIOFA standard protocol for future protected areas designation 7. Stock Assessment SC (01) Proposed framework for low-information species ERA SC-03-INFO-02 SIOFA, Resource Management of Alfonsino and Harvest Control Rules. R. Shotton, January 2018 SC-03-INFO-03 Treatment of Zero-Catch Observations in CPUE Analysis of Tow Results. R. Shotton, SIODFA, January Stock assessment working group (SAWG) SC (01) Orange roughy biomass estimation in SIOFA - Review of the use of acoustics from industry vessels. CISRO, Feb SC (02) Review of SIOFA orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) acoustic data. CISRO, Feb 2018.

4 SC (03) SAWG1 Meeting Report SC (03) Annex F Info. used to support or stock structure assumptions_reduced SC (04) Rev1 Stock assessment of orange roughy Walter's Shoal. Cordue, 2018 SC (05) Rev1 Assessment of orange roughy stocks SIOFA Areas 1, 2, 3a and 3b. Cordue, 2018 SC-03-INFO-10 Assessment of orange roughy stocks SIOFA Areas 1, 2, 3a and 3b. PRESENTATION SC-03-INFO-11 (Rev_1) Summary of historical orange roughy catch (Mar ) SC-03-INFO-13 Stock assessment of orange roughy Walter's Shoal PRESENTATION 7.2 Ecological risk assessment working group (ERAWG) SC-03-INFO-07 Summary of the 1st meeting of the SIOFA Ecological Risk Assessment Working Group Deepwater Chondrichthyans SC (01) Ecological Risk Assessment for Deepwater Chrondrichthyans in the Southern Indian Ocean SC-03-INFO-12-Sensitivity Analyses supporting ERA for Deepwater Chondrichthyans in the SIO 8. Proposals to bottom fish in the Agreement Area in a manner at variance with established measures 9. Scientific impact assessments 9.1 Demersal gillnet operations 10. Cooperation with other RFMOs and International Bodies 10.1 FAO ABNJ Deep Sea project update 10.2 Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) 10.3 Collaboration with CCAMLR on stock assessment and tagging SC-03-INFO-16 SIOFA_SWIOFC Collaboration - A Concept Note

5 10.4 Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) SC (01) Proposal for a Memorandum of Understanding between SIOFA and the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) 11. Scientific Committee Work Plan SC-03-INFO-08 Report on the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) 2017 Scientific Committee. Provided by the European Union Long term research plan operational work plan and budget 12. Advice to the Meeting of the parties 12.1 Draft CMM on fishing research SC (01) Draft CMM on fishing research 13. Future meeting arrangements 14. Other business 15. Adoption of the meeting report 16. Close of meeting

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