REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH ... - Iccat

SUB-COM STATISTICS9. Other recommendations to the data collection programs (i.e. individual ICCAT members) or theSecretariat data management group.It took an inordinate amount of time during this assessment meeting to prepare the basic inputs to theassessment, such as catch-at-age. The use of time during the assessment needs to be more efficient and this canonly be achieved through better preparation before the meeting. The Secretariat needs sufficient resources toprepare available data files (table of substitutions, catch-at-size, catch-at-age, tagging) at least two weeks beforethe meeting and National Scientists need to devote sufficient resources to review those files before the start of themeeting --and request any necessary modifications, if applicable--. Note that this issue should be addressed tothe Sub-Committee on Statistics and revisited in the SCRS Plenaries and we should consider the use of modernweb conferencing techniques.221