Intersessional Process to develop voluntary regional guides for the use of tools in conducting high seas boarding and inspections

At WCPFC21 (December 2024), the Commission adopted the Intersessional process to develop voluntary regional guides for the use of tools in conducting high seas boarding and inspections, and elected Mr David Power (Australia) as Lead for the HSBI WG.

2025

On Tuesday March, 4, 2025 the first meeting of the HSBI WG took place.  The papers and presentations from that meeting can be found here, under the All Documents Tab.  In addition, a copy of the Chairs Summary Report is provided below.

The following are the next set of online meetings:

Documents relevant to the work of this working group are provided below.

Symbol Title Files Date of Issue
WCPFC21 Adopted Process Adopted Intersessional process to develop voluntary regional guides for the use of tools in conducting high seas boarding and inspections file attachment (248.63 KB) 4 Dec 2024
DRAFT HSBI Guide Framework Document - Proposed to support consultation via the WCPFC Intersessional Process file attachment (215.89 KB)file attachment (53.29 KB) 14 Feb 2025
Circ 2025-07 Commencing the Intersessional Process to Develop Voluntary Regional HSBI Guides, led by Australia file attachment (279.82 KB) 14 Feb 2025
WCPFC-HSBIWG01-2025 Chairs Summary Report for HSBI-WG01 file attachment (332.64 KB) 21 Mar 2025
HSBI Working Group update and next meeting
Chair
file attachment (94.67 KB) 8 May 2025
WCPFC-HSBIWG02-2025-WP03 Draft Voluntary Guide on use of volumetrics method for estimating the fish quantity onboard
France
file attachment (510.38 KB)file attachment (493.35 KB) 25 May 2025
WCPFC-HSBIWG02-2025-WP02 Draft Voluntary Guide on use of DNA sampling in HSBI activities
Australia
file attachment (908.19 KB)file attachment (3.33 MB) 9 Jun 2025
WCPFC-HSBIWG02-2025-WP04 English Questionnaire file attachment (224.55 KB)file attachment (58.36 KB) 15 Jun 2025
Circ 2025-34 Update on HSBI WG Process and Upcoming Meetings
HSBI WG Chair
file attachment (335.3 KB) 17 Jun 2025

General information about WCPFC's High Seas Boarding and Inspection Scheme may be found at this link and a copy of the Secretariat's TCC Annual Report on the WCPFC High Seas Boarding and Inspection Scheme (September 2024) may be found here

 

 

 

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