The OFP conduct regional Tuna Data Workshops (TDW) on an annual basis at the SPC Noumea headquarters. These workshops are conducted over one week during April each year and are attended by tuna data coordinators from SPC member countries and other small-island developing countries belonging to the WCFPC (Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam). These workshops are conducted jointly with the OFP Fishery Monitoring Section. The TDW covers a number of topics on tuna fishery data collection and ·management, including:

• National Reports on the status of data collection and management

• Review of Annual catch estimates for provision to the WCPFC

• Review of other scientific data to be provided to the WCPFC

• Preparation of the WCPFC National Fishery Reports for the Scientific Committee

• Review of recent data issues in the national tuna fisheries

• Review and resolution of problems in data collection systems

• Legal aspects of collecting fisheries data

• Auditing data collection and management systems

• Latest developments in·database management systems·(e.g. TUFMAN, TUBS, CES)

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