Online Submission of Progress Report Data and Proposed Changes to the Progress Report Template

摘要

This group was formed to examine various suggestions and recommendations made in recent years (e.g. in the Working Group on Bycatch and the Sub-committee on Small Cetaceans) with respect to online submission of various types of data included in the Progress Reports and the ability to quickly obtain summary tables of information on, for example, bycatch, ship strikes and directed catches. In view of this, the group examined the existing requirements for Progress Reports in the light of possible online submission, recognising that this must balance the needs of the progress report compilers as well as the Committee.