AWMP WORKSHOP, 28 MARCH – 1 APRIL, LA JOLLA 2011.

At its last Annual Meeting, the Scientific Committee agreed that it would hold a workshop on matters related to the AWMP with an emphasis on:

1. preparing to complete an Implementation Review of eastern gray whales at the 2011 Annual Meeting, with the focus on the proposed Makah hunt, taking into account information available on the Pacific Coast Feeding Aggregation;
2. evaluating progress on the sex ratio assessment method for common minke whales off West Greenland to ensure that a decision on its suitability or not can be taken at the 2011 Annual Meeting;
3. making progress on developing SLAs for the Greenlandic hunts with a focus on fin whales and common minke whales.

Given the availability of personnel and the travel distances involved, it has been agreed that the primary focus will be on Item (1) which will be discussed from 28 March – 31 March. Greenlandic participants will join the workshop via Skype (or similar) on 1 April to discuss progress with Items (2) and (3).

The meeting will be held at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (old building), 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive La Jolla, California 92037-1508 USA.

The proposed hotel is the Hotel La Jolla at the Shores. The Workshop will commence at 10 am on 28 March.

Participants with new documents for the workshop should submit them to the Secretariat so that they can receive document numbers and the documents can be placed on this website in due course.

The following documents are available to download: