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Report of the second meeting of the SCSA Working Group on Stock Assessment Methodologies, on basic methods and protocols to undertake assessments with direct methods. Libya, 2-4 June 2008

<i>Meeting document GFCM:SAC11/2008/Inf.13</i>










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