Bottom Fishing Impact Assessment Trawl and Longline

SIOFA CMM2019/01 paragraph 5(a) directed the Scientific Committee (SC) to provide advice and recommendations to the Meeting of the Parties (MoP) on a SIOFA Bottom Fishing Impact Assessment (SIOFA BFIA). BFIA in SIOFA are to be undertaken in accordance with the SIOFA Bottom Fishing Impact Assessment Standard (BFIAS).
The SC called for a consultant to undertake BFIA for trawl and demersal longline fishing gears used in SIOFA. Both BFIA shall be cumulative assessments using fishing data from all relevant Contracting Parties, where possible.
The consultant's report is not is public access yet.