date:Jul 31, 2012
ities; and requirements to avoid the incidental by-catch of seabirds.
The fishery clients are contributing to the process of identification of candidate Marine Protected Areas (MPA) based on objective biological criteria by providing data collected from the observer programmes. In addition, an outline research plan has been developed to test the life-history hypothesis for toothfish; a tagging programme providing high-quality data for use in the stock assessment is ongoing; initial mapping of