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title: "ACAP will present its latest best-practice advice for mitigating seabird bycatch to an ICCAT meeting in Madrid next month"
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# ACAP will present its latest best-practice advice for mitigating seabird bycatch to an ICCAT meeting in Madrid next month

Anton Wolfaardt, Convenor of ACAP’s Seabird Bycatch Working Group ([SBWG](http://www.acap.aq/en/documents/working-groups/seabird-bycatch-working-group)) will be attending the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ([ICCAT](https://www.iccat.int/)) I[ntersessional Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Ecosystems](http://www.iccat.int/Documents/3022-16_ENG.PDF) in Madrid, Spain over 05-09 September.

 As part of its deliberations the meeting will examine trends in annual by‐catch numbers and by‐catch rates of seabirds as a first step in the evaluation of the effect of ICCAT’s current seabird mitigation measure (Supplemental Recommendation by ICCAT on Reducing Incidental By‐catch of Seabirds in ICCAT Longline Fisheries – [Recommendation 11.09](https://www.iccat.int/Documents/Recs/compendiopdf-e/2011-09-e.pdf)).  ACAP will be submitting papers to the meeting to inform this evaluation process.  These will include information on latest best-practice advice for mitigating seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries, and work that the SBWG is progressing on estimating and reporting seabird bycatch (see [SBWG7 Doc 5](http://www.acap.aq/en/documents/working-groups/seabird-bycatch-working-group/seabird-bycatch-wg-meeting-7/sbwg7-meeting-documents/2685-sbwg7-doc-05-the-further-development-of-acap-seabird-bycatch-indicators-data-needs-methodological-approaches-and-reporting-requirements/file)).

 The meeting will also consider seabird by‐catch and mitigation in the Mediterranean.

 [Click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2182-the-international-commission-for-the-conservation-of-atlantic-tunas-prepares-for-the-review-of-its-seabird-conservation-measures-in-madrid?highlight=WyJpY2NhdCIsImljY2F0J3MiLCIxMS0wOSJd) for a report on ACAP’s attendance at the 2015 meeting of ICCAT’s Sub-Committee on Ecosystems.

 [![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Mitigation/Fact_Sheet_05_Fig1.jpg)](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2182-the-international-commission-for-the-conservation-of-atlantic-tunas-prepares-for-the-review-of-its-seabird-conservation-measures-in-madrid?highlight=WyJpY2NhdCIsImljY2F0J3MiLCIxMS0wOSJd)

 With thanks to Anton Wolfaardt.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 10 August 2016*