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title: "Tuna commission to hold a seabird meeting"
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# Tuna commission to hold a seabird meeting

  The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission ([IATTC](https://acap.aq/www.iattc.org)) will hold a Technical Meeting on Seabirds at Del Mar, California, USA on 11 May 2009 ([click here](http://www.iattc.org/PDFFiles2/Seabirds-Provisional-agenda-May-09.pdf) for the meeting agenda).

  The technical meeting will *inter alia* review the geographical distribution of seabirds in the eastern Pacific Ocean; consider available information on seabird-fishery interactions in longline, purse-seine and artisanal fisheries; and consider available information on trends in seabird abundance.

  Three documents relating to seabird-fishery interactions recently published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ([FAO](https://acap.aq/www.fao.org)) will be tabled at the meeting (go to [http://www.iattc.org/Meetings2009/IATTCandAIDCPMeetingMay09ENG.htm](http://www.iattc.org/Meetings2009/IATTCandAIDCPMeetingMay09ENG.htm) for PDFs of these documents).

 

*Posted by John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 March 2009*