The regional Tuna Data Workshop is conducted on an annual basis for SPC member countries to improve their scientific tuna monitoring and data management capacity, and satisfy their data reporting obligations to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). It will be held from the 15rd to the 19th of April 2013, in Noumea, New Caledonia

The workshop is targeted to “National Tuna Data Coordinators (NTDC)”, which are the focal points for the coordination of tuna fishery data collection and management.