The workshop is part of the effort to introduce the BMIS to potential users and demonstrate its utility in supporting science-based fisheries management. It was designed to work through various bycatch issues using the BMIS, SPC resources, and participants’ national fisheries knowledge and experience.

The objective of the workshop was to enhance collective understanding of the options and challenges in analysing seabird bycatch data. This meeting is part of the seabird bycatch component of the CO project and was convened as part of the process of achieving the overall goals of the project

This report focuses specifically on discussions between BirdLife South Africa staff representing the Common Oceans project, and participants at the Brazil National Awareness Workshop (NAW), held 14-15 December 2017 in Cabo Frio, Brazil. The outcomes presented here are the result of discussions conducted in parallel with the general session of the NAW; a full Workshop Report is available elsewhere, this report covers discussions relating to the data availability and proposed analytical approaches by Brazilian researchers in support of the goals of the Seabird Bycatch Assessment (SBA).

This report focusses specifically on discussions relating to the data availability and proposed analytical work relating to the goals of the Common Oceans and BirdLife International (CO,BLI) project on seabird bycatch assessment. The discussions were held between the BirdLife seabird assessment project team members and members of the Republic of Korea (ROK) National Institute for Fisheries Science (NIFS).

This report focusses specifically on discussions relating to the data availability and proposed analytical work relating to the goals of the Common Oceans and BirdLife International (CO, BLI) project on seabird bycatch assessment. The discussions were held between the BLI project team and members of the Japanese National Research Institute for Far Seas Fishery (NRIFSF) on 29-30 January 2018.