Internal and Meeting Reports A selection of statistics-related working papers presented at meetings of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish (1987-2004), during the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (2005 onwards) or other meetings, and OFP Internal Reports on a broad range of subjects.
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Lawson, T.A. Issues concerning the Statistics Working Group of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish. Working Paper 3. Eleventh Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 28 May - 6 June 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii, New Caledonia.
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Millar, C. Classification of purse-seine effort by school association. Working Paper SWG-7. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T., S.-K. Chang, A. Coan & M. Hinton. Review of Japanese catch and effort logsheets. Working Paper SWG-5. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T.A. Proposal for Monitoring the Catches of Highly Migratory Species in the Philippines and the Pacific Ocean Waters of Indonesia. Prepared for the Preparatory Conference for the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific.
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Williams, P. & T. Lawson. A review of catches of tuna and tuna-like species in the South China Sea. Working Paper SWG-4. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 July 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Williams, P. Current status of data available from the Indonesian and Philippines domestic tuna fisheries. Working Paper SWG-8. Fifteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 22-27 July 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America.
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Lawson, T.A. Factors affecting the use of species composition data collected by observers and port samplers from purse seiners in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Working Paper ST-WP-3. Fourth Regular Session of the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, 11-22 August 2008 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Lawson, T. Methods for analysing bycatches with observer data. Working Paper SWG-10. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T.A. Predation of tuna by whales and sharks in the western and central Pacific Ocean. Working Paper SWG-6. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T.A. Data requirements for conversion of lengths and weights of central and western Pacific tuna and billfish. Internal Report N° 32.
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Bigelow, K. Estimating bigeye composition in the purse seine fishery. Working Paper SWG-3. Twelfth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 6-23 June 1999, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Bigelow, K. Estimation of bigeye catches by purse seiners. Working Paper SWG-8. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T.A. Indices of abundance of yellowfin tuna in the western Pacific determined from purse-seine catch and effort data. Working Paper 5. Third Meeting of the Western Pacific Yellowfin Research Group, 21-23 June 1993, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
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Lawson, T.A., and A.D. Lewis. Distant-water longline catch and effort in the vicinity of the Cook Islands. Internal Report N° 30.
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Lawson, T.A. & P.G. Williams. Comparison of the species composition of catches by purse seiners in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean determined from observer and other types of data. Working Paper ST WP-4. First Regular Session of the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, 8-19 August 2005, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T. Proposed minimum standards for tuna fishery catch and effort logsheets.
Working Paper SWG-5. Twelfth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 6-23 June 1999, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Report on the First Tuna Data Workshop (TDW-1), 23-27 October 2006
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Lawson, T.A. Scientific aspects of observer programmes for tuna fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Working Paper ST WP-1. Second Regular Session of the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, 7-18 August 2006, Manila, Philippines.
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Lawson, T. Observer data held by the Oceanic Fisheries Programme covering tuna fishery bycatches in the western and central Pacific Ocean. Working Paper SWG-9. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T.A. Distant-water longline catch and effort in the vicinity of Pitcairn. Internal Report N° 29.
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Williams, P. Preliminary review of data collection forms used in Philippines tuna fisheries. Working Paper SWG-7. Seventeenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-18 August 2004, Majuro, Marshall Islands.
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Hampton, W.J., T.A. Lawson, P.G. Williams and J.R. Sibert. Interaction between small-scale fisheries in Kiribati and the industrial purse seine fishery in the western and central Pacific Ocean. In: R.S. Shomura, J. Majkowski and R.F. Harman [editors]. Status of interactions of Pacific tuna fisheries in 1995. Proceedings of the second FAO Expert Consultation on Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries, Shimizu, Japan, 23-31 January 1995. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 365. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Pp: 183-223.
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Lawson, T.A. Observer coverage rates and the accuracy and reliability of estimates of CPUE for offshore longline fleets targeting South Pacific albacore. Working Paper SWG-4. Sixteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 July 2003, Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia.
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Lawson, T.A. & L. Garibaldi. Comparison of tuna catch statistics for the western and central Pacific Ocean held by FAO and SPC. Internal Report N° 41.
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Lawson, T.A. Analysis of the proportion of bigeye in yellowfin plus bigeye caught by purse seiners in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, based on observer data. Working Paper SWG-6. Sixteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 July 2003, Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia.
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Lawson, T.A. & P. Lehodey. Distant-water longline catch and effort in the vicinity of Wallis and Futuna. Internal Report N° 37.
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Millar, C & P. Williams. Taiwanese distant-water longline catch characteristics with regard to albacore targeting. Working Paper SWG-11. Fourteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 9-16 August 2001, Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Lawson, T.A. Sampling the proportion of bigeye in the catch by purse seiners in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Working Paper SWG-5. Fifteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 22-27 July 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America.
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Lawson, T., A. Coan & M. Hinton. Review of Taiwanese catch and effort logsheets. Working Paper SWG-4. Fifteenth Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, 22-27 July 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America.
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Lawson, T.A. Analysis of longline catch per vessel in the western and central Pacific Ocean. Internal Report N° 40.
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