The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) will hold the Eighth Meeting of its Ecologically Related Species Working Group in Busan, South Korea over 1-3 September 2009.
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement will be represented at the working group meeting by Barry Baker, Technical Advisor to the ACAP Secretariat.
ACAP will present at the meeting Information Paper CCSBT-ERS/0909/Info03 entitled "Mitigation Measures for Pelagic Longline Gear: a Report on the Work of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels".
Click here for the report of the Seventh ERSWG meeting, held in Tokyo, Japan in July 2007.
John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 21 August 2009