Intersessional Workshop on the development of VME management (WS2022-VME1)

Objectives of the Workshop

To develop scientific strategies that will provide an answer to the following three questions:
- What are the management options for VME protection in the SIOFA Agreement area?
- How can SIOFA develop scientifically informed VME indicator species thresholds?
- What would potential SIOFA VME indicator species thresholds look like?

These objectives will be considered in a series of four separate workshops. The first two workshops will address the first two questions, while the last question will be addressed in the last two workshops.
The workshops' sessions are:
- 12 December 2022 from 07H00 to 11H00 UTC
- 14 December 2022 from 07H00 to 11H00 UTC
- 09 January 2022 from 07H00 to 11H00 UTC
- 16 January 2022 from 07H00 to 11H00 UTC