The Governor of Tasmania, Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, will today open the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
The Governor will welcome some 280 marine scientists, resource managers and policy makers representing 25 international delegations, who will review current practice and consider new measures to conserve and manage marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean.
Recommendation 28: The Secretariat ensure that capacity building and associated outreach support is strengthened in the next review of the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan.
(paragraphs 85 to 88)
Commission and SCAF
(2017) SCIC-2017, paragraph 218
(2018) CCAMLR-XXXVII, paragraphs 4.4 and 10.8 (Secretariat Strategic Plan and ICG on Capacity Building)
Recommendation 19: The current practice of managing the business of the Scientific Committee through an informal executive group be institutionalised as a Scientific Committee Bureau, in order to formalise good practices to improve the efficiency and conduct of business in the Scientific Committee and its working groups.
Recommendation 14: Agreements with adjacent regional fisheries bodies be further developed and operationalised to ensure the useful exchange of meaningful information and relevant data necessary to establish effective conservation and management measures applicable in the CCAMLR area.
Recommendation 5: On the basis of currently available data, the Scientific Committee, in consultation with SCAR, external experts and other organisations, deliver an initial assessment of the status, trends and possible future trajectories of Antarctic marine living resources, and the interactions of fisheries with them.
Recommendation 3: Work be undertaken with the ATCM to identify priority matters of shared interest and/or responsibility with the Commission, and to enhance collaboration on those matters.
Recommendation 1: A strategic approach be taken by the Commission to achieving its objective throughout the whole of the Convention Area as well as at regional scales by developing and implementing proactive practical steps for spatial management, fishery management and structured ecosystem monitoring and management.
