General
General 1: Announcement. MARAM/IWS/2025/General/1. 1pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
General 2: Wednesday discussion announcement. MARAM/IWS/2025/General/2. 1pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
General 3: Schedule. MARAM/IWS/2025/General/3. 1 pp.
Sardine
Primary papers
Sardine/P1:
Background papers
Sardine/BG1:
Presentations
Sardine/Pres1:
Working papers
Sardine/WP1:
Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management (EBFM)
Primary papers
EBFM/P1:
EBFM/P2: Bergh, M. 2025. A proposal to adjust natural mortality to obtain SY:B relationships consistent with Smith et al (2011). IWS/2025/EBFM/P2. 10 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
EBFM/P3: Cochrane, K and Coetzee, J. 2025. Some initial thoughts on the potential use of mice for informing targets or thresholds for harvest rates to take into account impacts on predators of fishing on small pelagics. IWS/2025/EBFM/P3. 9 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Background papers
EBFM/BG1: Cochrane, K. 2025. Considering appropriate harvest levels for LTL species that take account of the need of dependent predators and the wider ecosystem. IWS/2025/EBFM/BG1. 15 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Presentations
EBFM/Pres1:
Working papers
EBFM/WP1:
Survey
Primary papers
Survey/P1:
Survey/P2:
Survey/P3: Ross-Gillespie, A., Butterworth D.S. and Maphumulo, T. 2025. Hake projections with missing surveys under OMP2022. IWS/2025/Survey/P3 (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Survey/P4:
Survey/P5:
Background papers
Survey/BG1: Coetzee, J., Butterworth, D., de Moor, C. and Durholtz, D. 2025. Summary cost implications of not conducting a November 2024 small pelagic biomass survey with comments on the financial benefits of having conducted the 2024 demersal surveys. IWS/2025/Survey/BG1. 15 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Survey/BG2: Fairweather, T.P. Singh, L. and Durholtz, D. 2025. DFFE Demersal Research Surveys. IWS/2025/Survey/BG2. 9 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Survey/BG3: Ross-Gillespie, A., Butterworth D.S. and Maphumulo, T. 2025. Update to the hake Reference Case Operating Model with inclusion of the 2024 commercial data. IWS/2025/Survey/BG3. 14 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Survey/BG4: Brandao, A. and Butterworth, D.S. 2025. Updated “Replacement Yield” model fit to catch and survey data for the South coast and for the West coast kingklip resources off South Africa to include data up to 2024. IWS/2025/Survey/BG4. 13 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Survey/BG5: Ross-Gillespie, A. and Butterworth D.S. 2025. Robustness tests results for the hake OMP-2022 revision. IWS/2025/Survey/BG5. 22 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Presentations
Survey/Pres1:
Working papers
Survey/WP1:
Squid
Primary papers
Squid/P1: Brandao, A. and Butterworth, D.S. 2025. List of key questions/requests for the panel and a brief summary of documents provided pertaining to the chokka squid resource. IWS/2025/Squid/P1. 2 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Squid/P2: Brandao, A. and Butterworth, D.S. 2025. Excerpts from the 2024 IWS panel report pertaining to the chokka squid resource, together with responses. IWS/2025/Squid/P2. 4 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
Squid/P3: Brandao, A. and Butterworth, D.S. 2025. Available data for the assessment of the South African chokka squid (Loligo reynaudii) resource. IWS/2025/Squid/P3. 14 pp. (uploaded 21/11/2025).
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