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Resource ID
10686
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Full Title
Aquatic Wild Meat Database - Report of the Intersessional Correspondence Group
Author
Mel Cosentino, Isabel Avila, Tim Collins, Pierre Gallego, Daniel Ingram, Randall Reeves, Mark P Simmonds, Elizabeth Slooten, Robert Suydam, Fernando Trujillo
Abstract
The document is the report of the work of the IWC Aquatic Wild Meat Database Intersessional Correspondence Group. The group discussed the research questions the ‘Aquatic Wild Meat Database’ (https://aquaticbushmeat.shinyapps.io/wildmeat/) could help answer and assess the best approach for data validation and quality control. The questions were grouped into six main topics: Geography; Trends in use over time; Species, sex, and age class; Uses; Acquisition; and Data Sources. The groups recommends the following actions from the IWC: Summarize any possible recommendations for action from the Scientific Committee and timeframes; Include the utilisation of small cetaceans as an agenda item for the Working Group on Non-Deliberate Human-Induced Mortality of Cetaceans (HIM) in conjunction with (or instead of) the SubCommittee on Small Cetaceans (SM); and Encourage IWC member countries to contribute to the database;