Description

This form supports the reporting of geographic position and description of each fishing activity conducted around each anchored fish aggregated devices(AFAD), annually, along with estimates of retained catches and discards in numbers or live weight equivalent for the IOTC species, common sharks, and other bycatch species.

Resources

Click here to download an empty version of form 3-AA, or return back to the list of all IOTC statistical data reporting forms.

Supported resolutions

  • 15/02 - Mandatory statistical reporting requirements for IOTC Contracting Parties and Cooperating Non-contracting Parties (CPCs)
  • 23/01 - On the conservation of sharks caught in association with fisheries managed by IOTC

Reference species groups

  • IOTC species [ mandatory ]
  • Sharks [ mandatory ]
  • Other bycatch / non-IOTC species [ voluntary ]

Reporting deadlines

  • Surface fisheries: 30 June (final)

Stratification

Reporting metadata

Submission information

Element Requirement Description Format Example
Focal point full name M Name of the focal point in charge of the reporting of the data to the IOTC Secretariat Plain text John Doe
Focal point email M Email address of the focal point in charge of the reporting of the data to the IOTC Secretariat Valid email address
Organisation name M Name of the organisation in charge of the reporting of the data to the IOTC Secretariat Plain text National Institute of Fisheries
Organisation email O Email address of the organisation in charge of the reporting of the data to the IOTC Secretariat Valid email address
Finalisation date M Date of finalisation of the dataset ISO 8601 1996-03-27
Submission date M Date of submission of the dataset ISO 8601 1997-03-21

General information

Element Requirement Description Code list
Reporting year M Gregorian calendar year of the fishing activities reported through the dataset Integer
Reporting entity M Code of the entity reporting the dataset to the IOTC Secretariat Entity
Flag state M Code of the country registration of the fishery vessels Countries

Data specifications

Element Requirement Description Code list
Original data type M Preliminary/final status of the data Type of data

Data elements

Main data elements

Element Requirement Description Code list
Month M Gregorian calendar month of the fishing activities reported through the dataset Integer
Day of the Month M Day of the month of the fishing activities reported through the dataset Integer
Fisheries M Type of fishing practices based on several factors Fisheries
Latitude M Horizontal distances north or south of the Equation in decimal degrees
Longitude M Vertical distances east or west of the prime meridian in decimal degrees
Species M Species caught and discarded Species
Type of fate M Fate of fish caught (retained or discarded) Types of fate
Data raising M Level of raising (i.e., extrapolation) Raisings
Catch unit M Units used to report the level of catches of a given species, Catch units

aFOB data

Element Requirement Description Code list
Identifier M FOB identification (Deacon ID) Plain text
Type M Type of FOBs AFOB types
Activity M Type of activities undertaken when visiting or deploying FOB AFOB activity types

Additional information

Annual submission of information of daily activities conducted around AFADs, including catches retained and discarded.

Referenced codelists

Countries (ADM.COU)

Reference codes modeling the flag / reporting country submitting a dataset to the IOTC Secretariat.

Fisheries and fishing technologies domains

Fisheries (FIS)

An ad-hoc classification derived from a combination of several factors (purpose, area of operation, vessel size category, gear, gear configuration, fishing mode and target species) that uniquely describe fishing practices for groups of vessels.

An interactive wizard to help CPCs identify the IOTC code for their fisheries (among those currently considered of relevance in the Indian Ocean).

Data types (DTA.TY)

Reference codes modeling the type of statistics provided through a specific form, and in particular if these are:

  1. preliminary if the statistics were estimated by using some information from the fishery and year concerned, and the data reported are likely to change in the future as more information become available; or
  2. final if the statistics were estimated by using the complete set of data from the fishery and year concerned, and the data reported are unlikely to change in the future.

Biological and morphometrics domains

All species (SPC.ALL)

Reference codes modeling the species interacting with the fisheries as:

  • target species (retained or discarded)
  • bycatch species (retained or discarded)
  • sampled individuals
  • etc.

These codelists are subsets of the entries in the ASFIS list of species for fishery statistics purposes, from which they inherit the alphabetic codes, English, French and scientific names, as well as the family and order, and add the species category (in the IOTC sense), the IUCN status (retrieved from the IUCN red list of endangered species) and other characteristics of each entry such as their status of single species / species aggregate, bait species, SSI species, IOTC species.

Data and metadata domains

Types of anchored fishing object (aFOB) (FOB.AFT)

Reference codes that model the types of anchored FOBs.

Types of anchored fishing activity types (aFOB) (FOB.AAT)

Reference codes that model the type of activities undertaken when interacting with an anchored FOB.

Type of fate (SPC.FTT)

Reference codes used to identify a given fate as indicating that the fish has been retained or discarded.

Raising (DTA.RA)

Reference codes modeling the level of raising applied to the data, and in particular if data:

  • have been raised to the represent the total catches and effort in the year concerned (RT),
  • have been raised but does not represent the total catches and effort in the year concerned (PR), or
  • have not been raised at all (NR)

Catch units (FIA.CU)

Reference codes that model the units used to report the level of catches / discards of a given species, further stratified by the specific criteria characterizing each reporting form.