Meeting Reports

The following papers were prepared following expert meetings facilitated by ISSF.

Meeting	Description
Bellagio Framework for Sustainable Tuna Fisheries	The Bellagio Conference on Sustainable Tuna Fisheries was held to develop an analysis of key issues that are vital for the management of tuna fisheries to ensure sustainable fish stocks and healthy ecosystems, while providing fair access to the fisheries for all participants, and retaining profitability of the industry.
Second Meeting of the Scientific Committee for the ISSF Bycatch Project	In August 2011 ISSF held the Second Meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Bycatch Project. Seventeen participants from all over the world attended to discuss progress toward the objectives.
The Cordoba Conference on the Allocation of Property Rights in Global Tuna Fisheries	The Cordoba Conference brought together a distinguished group of negotiators, scholars, representatives of RFMOs, industry, environmental NGOs and other international institutions. The conference provided an opportunity for the participants to engage in debate and discussion in a collaborative and neutral venue on the issue of allocation of property rights and subsequent use rights in multi-lateral tuna management programs.
Guayaquil Eastern Pacific Ocean Rights-Based Management Workshop	The Guayaquil Eastern Pacific Ocean Rights-based Management Workshop was held as a forum for participants from the fishing industry and other interested stakeholders to review examples and economic cases of rights-based management (RBM) systems for potential application in tuna fisheries in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO).
Allocation of Rights in the International Environmental Context: Lessons Learned and Their Applicability to Multi-Lateral Fisheries	The Napa Conference on Allocation was held to further develop and refine approaches to one of the three Bellagio pillars: Successful allocation of rights. The workshop convened a number of multi-disciplinary experts from academia, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and Governments of both developed and developing countries in order to draw from experiences in fields such as water, atmosphere, energy, fisheries and other complex environmental negotiations.
2011 Stock Assessment Workshop	The 2011 ISSF Stock Assessment Workshop was held in Rome to examine two issues that significantly affect scientific management advice and which are not always being treated consistently in tuna stock assessments: (1) Assumptions about the stock-recruitment relationship, and (2) evaluating the implications of changing mortality on juvenile and small tunas.
Sukarrieta Workshop on Bycatch in Tuna Fisheries	A meeting focusing on potential mitigation measures related to bycatch in the purse seine fishery on fish aggregating devices (FADs) was convened by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation and held at the AZTI-Tecnalia laboratory, Sukarrieta, Spain in November 2009. The objective of the meeting was to gather experts in the fields of gear technology, acoustics, shark and tuna behavior, fisheries, gear experts and physiologists to discuss with the skippers of purse seine vessels methods that could be used to mitigate bycatch.