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Upcoming Meetings Content  

Belize is a Member of ICCAT, IATTC and SPRFMO. As full members of these Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) it is within the best interest of Belize to attend and effectively participate in meetings, seminars and workshops held by these organizations for the purpose of our ongoing capacity building needs and to also contribute in the discussions and processes pertaining to developing management measures methodologies based on scientific advice provided by the scientific committees.  

Yellowfin Data Preparatory Meeting – April 8-12

Intersessional Meeting of Bluefin tuna Species Group – April 15-18

Intersessional meeting of Swordfish Species Group (including MSE) – May 6-9

First Virtual Working Group on Sustainable Financing Meeting – May 10

Mediterranean Albacore Data Preparatory and Assessment Meeting – May 13-18

Second Intersessional Meeting of Panel 1 – May 22-24

Intersessional Meeting of the Subcommittee on Ecosystems and Bycatch – May 27-31

Meeting of the Working Group on Stock Assessment methods (WGSAM) – June 3-6

First Virtual Working Group on the review of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission Meeting – June 4 (TBC)

Meeting of the Electronic Monitoring Systems (EMS) Working Group June 10

Second Meeting of the Standing Catch Document Scheme Working Group – June 11

17th Meeting of the Working Group on Integrated Monitoring Measures (IMM) June 12-14

Blue Marlin Stock Assessment Meeting – June 17-21

Panel 4 Intersessional Meeting on Northern Atlantic Swordfish MSE – June 25-26

Meeting of the Joint Experts Group on Climate Change – July 2-3

Yellowfin Tuna Stock Assessment Meeting – July 8-12

Second Virtual Working Group on Sustainable Financing Meeting – July 15 (TBD)

Second Virtual Working Group on the review of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission Meeting – September 10 (TBD)

SCRS Species Group meetings – September 16-21

Meeting of the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) – September 23-27

Third Intersessional meeting of Panel 1 – November 9-10 (TBC)

24th Special Meeting of the Commission – November 11-18

2nd Ad Hoc Working Group on Electronic Monitoring – April 23-25

2nd Meeting of the Permanent Working Group on Ecosystem and Bycatch – June 5-6

8th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on FADs – June 7-8

15th Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) – June 10-14

9th Joint IATTC-Northern Committee Working Group Meeting on PBF Management – July 10-13

73rd Meeting of the International Review Panel – August 26

38th Meeting of the Working Group to promote and publicize the AIDCP Dolphin Safe Tuna Certification System – August 26

51st Meeting on the Permanent Working Group on Tuna Tracking – August 26

2nd Ad Hoc Working Group on Electronic Monitoring (resumed) – August 27

48th Meeting of the Parties to the AIDCP – August 27-28

11th Meeting of the Committee on Administration and Finance – August 28

25th Meeting of the Permanent Working Group on Capacity of the Fleet – August 29

15th Meeting of the Committee for the review of Implementation of Measures Adopted by the Commission – August 30-31

102nd Meeting of the IATTC – September 2-6

1st Workshop on Capacity Building: Introduction to the Methods used in the tropical tuna stock assessments – September 9-14

12TH SPRFMO Annual Meeting – January 23 – February 2 2024

12th Scientific Committee Meeting – September 30- October 5

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