Report of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group Sample Clauses

Report of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. 12.1.1 The Convenor of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG), Xx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, introduced the report of the Sixth Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG6). This report outlined intersessional progress against the Work Programme of the SBWG, as well as discussions and advice resulting from the SBWG meeting held from 10-12 September 2014, in Punta del Este, Uruguay. 12.1.2 Participants from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Canada, United States, American Bird Conservancy, BirdLife International, Humane Society International, Pro-Delphinus Peru, Projeto Albatroz and SEO/BirdLife attended the meeting. The full report of the SBWG (AC8 Doc 12 Rev 1) provides a comprehensive record of work progressed intersessionally, the deliberations of the SBWG and the recommendations presented by the SBWG to the Advisory Committee. 12.1.3 The Advisory Committee supported the following recommendations of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group: i) endorsed the revised definition of Best Practice outlined in 3.1 of the SBWG6 report (AC8 Doc 12 Rev 1) to be used when developing advice on mitigation measures to reduce seabird bycatch; ii) endorsed the intersessional process to revise the layout and presentation of information in the bycatch mitigation review and best practice advice documents; iii) endorsed the proposal to re-evaluate the effectiveness of the branch line weighting configurations (as defined in the existing ACAP best practice branch line weighting recommendations), recognizing that new information has become available since the existing best practice recommendations were formulated, using the 3 step research programme: 1. statistical analysis of existing sink rate data to categorise various weighting configurations according to their sink rates; 2. review of the papers underpinning the existing ACAP advice, including taking account of the criteria for best practice and the type of seabird assemblages within which the previous studies were conducted; and 3. carrying out further collaborative field research on the relationship between sink rate configurations, identified in step 1, and resulting seabird mortalities and/ or seabird attack rates. This re-evaluation should inform a reconsideration of the best practice recommendations at a future meeting of the SBWG; iv) endorsed the proposal for comprehensive testing of line weighting configurations and devices to provide robust advice o...
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Report of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. 12.1.1 The Convenor of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG), Xx Xxxx Xxxxxx (New Zealand), introduced the report of the 10th Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG10). This report (AC12 Doc 13) outlined intersessional progress against the SBWG Work Programme as well as discussions and advice resulting from the meeting of SBWG10 held online from 17 - 19 August (UTC+10). The SBWG Convenor noted the challenges faced by the Working Group in conducting a virtual meeting and thanked the vice-convenors (Xx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Uruguay, and Xx Xxxx Xxxxx Seco Pon, Argentina) and all participants in the meeting for their goodwill and engagement. 12.1.2 The Advisory Committee thanked the SBWG Convenors and the Secretariat for preparing this report, and agreed the following advice based on recommendations from the SBWG, and took note of it when developing the AC Work Programme: 12.1.3 Seabird bycatch mitigation in trawl fisheries (i) Endorse the updated review and best practice advice for reducing the impact of pelagic and demersal trawl fisheries on seabirds. (ii) Encourage implementation of the research priorities for bycatch mitigation in trawl fisheries.
Report of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. 11.1.1 Argentina made a statement, which is provided in ANNEX 17.
Report of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. 13.1.1 The Convenor of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG), Xx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, introduced the report of the Eighth Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG8). The report (AC10 Doc 13 Rev 1) outlined intersessional progress against the Work Programme of the SBWG, as well as discussions and advice resulting from the SBWG meeting held from 4 - 6 September 2017, in Wellington, New Zealand. 13.1.2 The Advisory Committee supported the following recommendations in respect of the SBWG and took note of them when developing the AC Work Programme:

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