Title
SG-RST 07-05 : Balance between capacity and exploitation
Description

The draft report of the STECF june plenary (agenda item 6)  recommended forming an adhoc working group to address the question of better reporting on the balance of fishing capacity and fishing opportunities. The working group will be asked (specific ToRs will follow in September) to come up with concrete suggestions for indicators related to this question and apply their ideas to the North Sea cod fisheries. The group will learn from SGRST about their problems when reviewing effort and biological data and will try to find the right aggregation level for supporting the more general nature of the "balance" question.
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Meeting open to observers: Yes

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Date
24th (09:00) -26th (17:00) October 2007
Venue
Hotel Europa, Ispra, Italy.
Chair
TBD
DG MARE unit / focalpoint
Jan Henning LINDEMANN
STECF Secretariat / JRC focalpoint
jrc-stecf-secretariat@ec.europa.eu
Review Process
November 2007 plenary
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Terms of Reference
Documents

Dear Doug and Jan.
We have reviewed the documents available at the SGRST-07-05-website and suggest the following supplements:

Final Report