Matters for coordination between SC and TCC

This paper is submitted to the TCC07 meeting for information purpose and intended for coordination between SC and TCC. The SC tasked the Secretariat to inform TCC about the following matters from the 8th SC meeting held in December 2023:

a) The SC supports the efforts of the TCC and the SWG PD to seek clarification on CMM 2023-11 for Japanese Sardine, Neon Flying Squid and Japanese Flying Squid to address the fact that paragraphs 1 and 2 do not define the historical existing level of the number of fishing vessels, and similar paragraphs in other CMMs (Annex A).
b) The SC intends to work in cooperation with TCC and the Commission to amend CMM 2023-05 to address the ambiguity around the referenced effort limits agreed in February 2007 in Paragraph 4A and to amend CMM 2023-06 to determine the level of a historical average in Paragraph 3, i (Annex A).
c) The SC will continue to discuss data needs and data gaps that could be filled by a regional observer program as described in Annex B and inform the TCC about progress in these developments.