The “Deep‐sea Fisheries under the Ecosystem Approach” (DSF) project is one of five projects in the GEF‐7 ABNJ Common Oceans Program “Global Sustainable Fisheries Management and Biodiversity Conservation in the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ)” (GEF, 2022; FAO, 2023a). The objective of the project is to ensure that DSF in the ABNJ are managed under an ecosystem approach that maintains demersal fish stocks at levels capable of maximizing their sustainable yields and minimizing impacts on biodiversity.
This paper describes the work of the DSF project of relevance to the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR (SC-CAMLR), to invite the support of SC-CAMLR, including through the nomination of relevant experts, to facilitate further engagement in the following proposed DSF Project actions:
- Climate change
- Assessment of data‐limited stocks
- Impacts of deep-sea fisheries on deepwater chondrichthyans
- The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
- Deep-sea fisheries Industry workshops