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The ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group will meet over 22-24 August 2011 at the Unipark Hotel, Guayaquil, Ecuador, shortly before the Sixth Meeting of the Agreement's Advisory Committee takes place at the same venue.  The three-day meeting will be held under the co-convenorship of Barry Baker (ACAP Secretariat) and Anton Wolfaardt (United Kingdom).

The meeting, the fourth of the working group, will consider over 50 documents, now available for consultation on-line.

Discussions will take place on the following agenda items:

Pelagic Longline Bycatch Mitigation, Trawl Bycatch Mitigation, Demersal Longline Bycatch Mitigation, Gillnet Bycatch Mitigation, Artisanal Fisheries, Review of Bycatch Data provided by Parties, Bycatch Data Collection, Conservation Priorities, Development of Indicators, Coordination of activities relating to RFMOs, FAO IPOA/NPOA-Seabirds, Mitigation Fact Sheets, Risk Assessment, Review of Progress reports for ACAP funded Programmes, SBWG Work Programme, Work Programme 2010 - 2012, and Work Programme 2013 -2015.

The Working Group's report will then be considered by the Advisory Committee's meeting the following week.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 12 August 2011