Report of the Technical Workshop on Bottom Fisheries in the High Seas Areas of the Western Central Atlantic, Barbados, 30 September - 2 October 2014

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Report of the Technical Workshop on Bottom Fisheries in the High Seas Areas of the Western Central Atlantic, Barbados, 30 September - 2 October 2014

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1087. Bridgetown, FAO

Year of publication 2015

Pages 61 p.

Author Sub-regional Office for the Carribean

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-108697-1

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Series number 2070-6987|ISSN 2070-6987|20706987 - R1087

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Synopsis (short abstract) The first meeting of the Working Group on the Management of Deep-sea fisheries of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) took the form of a “Technical Workshop on Bottom Fisheries in the High Seas Areas of the Western Central Atlantic”. The meeting was held in Christ Church, Barbados, from 30 September to 2 October 2014. This report contains a summary of the presentations, discussions, conclusions and recommendations of the meeting. The report is organized along topics rather t han in chronological order. The meeting brought together 31 fisheries experts from 17 WECAFC member States and 4 institutions. The Working Group compiled available information on the high seas fisheries in the WECAFC area and noted that deep-sea fisheries in the High Seas had been and were occurring, and that they were likely to increase in the future. The Working Group also noted the international instruments and recommendations related to protecting vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) in the h igh seas of the WECAFC area. The group also noted with some concern that some of their shallow water fisheries were expanding into deeper waters. FAO outlined the mechanisms currently used to manage deep-sea fisheries and VMEs that could be affected by deep-sea fisheries. The FAO Deep-sea Fisheries Guidelines were presented to the group, which then applied them to VME elements within the region. The Working Group proposed a total of five potential VMEs within the WECAFC area. The recommendations of this workshop/working group will be presented for review to the seventh meeting of the WECAFC Scientific Advisory Group and to the sixteenth session of WECAFC.

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FAO/Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission. 2015. Report of the first meeting of the WECAFC Working Group on the Management of Deep-sea Fisheries, Christ Church, Barbados, 30 September–2 October 2014. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1087. Bridgetown, FAO. 61 pp

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This document is the final version of the report of the tenth session of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) and of the seventh session of the Committee for the Development and Management of Fisheries in the Lesser Antilles held in Bridgetown, Barbados, from 24 to 27 October 2001. Major topics discussed during the sessions were: the state of fishery resources and the situation and trends of fisheries in the WECAFC region, progress in the restructuring of WECAFC and its draft strategy, work programme of WECAFC 2002-03 and modalities for Co-operation and Capacity Building for responsible fishery management in the WECAFC Region. The Commission also reviewed the progress made in the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the main activities carried out during the intersessional period. The Commission expressed satisfaction with the achievements during the inter-sessional period, endorsed the formation of the Lesser Antilles ad hoc working group on moored FAD Fishing and adopted the work programme 2002-03 while noting that extra-budgetary resources would be required for its implementation. The main recommendations of the Session are included as Appendix G.
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