Update on the IWC Panama Workshop Sample Clauses

Update on the IWC Panama Workshop. The group reviewed the relevant aspects of the “Report of the Joint IWC-XXXX Workshop to Address Collisions Between Marine Mammals and Ships with a Focus on the Wider Caribbean” (IWC/65/CCrep01, 2014). At the time, that workshop reviewed currently used ship strike mitigation strategies and agreed that the only proven, effective mitigation measures are to avoid areas with known concentrations of whales, or reduce speed while transiting those areas. It also recognized that, in a number of venues, the shipping industry had stressed the need for any mitigation strategies to be predictable, in order to plan port arrivals and departures efficiently. In this regard, the Panama workshop recognized that the nascent IMMA process, in development by the IUCN MMPA Task Force at the time, might provide a helpful place to start, when looking for areas of high risk for whale and ship collisions.