Report of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on By-Catch Video conference 31 October 2018 © Krzysztof Skó ra-Hel Marine Station Please cite this report as: NAMMCO-North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (2018) Report of the NAMMCO Scientific Working Group on By-catch, October 2018. Available at https://nammco.no/topics/sc-working-group-reports/ NAMMCO Postbox 6453, Sykehusveien 21-23, N-9294 Tromsø, Norway, +47 77687371,
[email protected], www.nammco.no, www.facebook.com/nammco.no/, https://twitter.com/NAMMCO_sec NAMMCO Scientific Working Group on By-catch, October 2018 The NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on By-Catch held a video conference on 31 October 2018. The Working Group was convened by Geneviève Desportes (NAMMCO Secretariat) and chaired by Kimberly Murray (NOAA, US, Invited Expert). A list of participants is contained in Appendix 1. Simon Northridge (UK, Invited Expert) could not participate to the meeting, but had provided comments on the documents to be reviewed ahead of the meeting. 1 OPENING REMARKS General Secretary Geneviève Desportes welcomed the delegates to the meeting on behalf of NAMMCO. This meeting was a follow up of the April meeting. The specific task for this was to review the updated analysis of the Icelandic and Norwegian by-catch data in response to the recommendation of the WG formulated at its 2017 meeting (Iceland and Norway) and at its 2018 April meeting (Iceland) as well the implementation of the recommendations addressed to the Faroe Islands at the 2017 meeting and reiterated at the April 2018 meeting, with the order of priority defined under point 4.