Fourth standing committee on tuna and billfish

1. Preliminaries, opening address, appointment of chairman and rapporteurs, meeting procedures, adoption of the report of the third standing committee on tuna and billfish (Noumea, New Caledonia, 6-8 June 1990), brief introduction to the strategic plan, 2. overview of western pacific tuna fisheries, fishery summaries, economic and marketing factors, 3. SPC tuna and billfish assessment programme activities, RTTP-work programme and progress report, In-country tagging projects, assessment and monitoring of levels of exploitation of commercially-important tuna and billfish species, South Pacific albacore, oceanography and tuna fisheries, fisheries statistics project, 4. PIN/DWFN/ASEAN collaboration on tuna and billfish research, 5. reports by other organisations, 6. FAO expert consultationon interactions of Pacific tuna fisheries, 7. considerationof TBAP stratigic plan