Annual Report on Members’ implementation of ERS measures and performance with respect to ERS

Paragraph 8 of the Resolution to Align CCSBT’s Ecologically Related Species (ERS) measures with those of other tuna RFMOs requires that: “The Secretariat shall annually present a report to the CCSBT Compliance Committee on the implementation of the ERS Measures, for the sole purpose of the provision of information for Members and Cooperating Non-Members”. In addition, the Report of CCSBT 25 specifies: “That ERS is to remain a standing item on the Annual Meeting agenda, and the Secretariat is to provide annual reports on Members’ performance with respect to ERS”; and clarifies that: “the report provided by the Secretariat would be a simple report of numbers and species by Member for the past 3 years, derived from Members annual reports and submitted ERS data, and did not require additional submission from Members.” The two required reports are interrelated, so the Secretariat compiles the contents for both reports into this single paper. The paper is organised as follows: (1) Implementation of ERS Measures a) Observer Coverage b) Usage of seabird mitigation measures c) Data submission d) Participation and reporting to ERSWG meetings e) Annual reports to the Compliance Committee and the Extended Commission (2) Performance a) ERS mortality rate b) Total ERS mortality