Bycatch is a major threat to the harbour porpoise in the Baltic Sea. The European Commission has developed an Action Plan under which it recommends Member States to adopt national measures or submit joint recommendations to the Commission to minimise bycatch (or reduce it to the level that enables the full recovery of the populations) of harbour porpoise in the Baltic Sea by end 2023.
The workshop (WKSUP) is directly linked to a special request to ICES from DGMARE on 'Support for the implementation of the Action Plan (III)'. Work carried out WKSUP will contribute to completing this task. Among the aims of WKSUP is to develop a bycatch risk assessment for harbour porpoises in the Baltic Proper, with focus on the Baltic Proper porpoise population. For more information, read the complete terms of reference.
Registration
All ICES workshops are open for participation. Participants from
public institutes, universities, governments, international
organizations and conventions, public consultative bodies, industry
organizations, and environmental NGOs, as well as interested
individuals, are welcome to join and contribute with their expertise.
If the workshop is oversubscribed, ICES reserves the right, in
consultation with the workshop chairs, to select the final workshop
participants based on their expertise, gender and geographical
distribution.
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Deadline for registration: 26 May 2024
