Joint Session of the Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fishing Behaviour and the Working Group on Fisheries Acoustics Science and Technology

In accordance with C. Res. 199712:18 ajoint session between the Working Group on Fisheries Acoustics Science andTechnology and Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Dehaviour met under the chairmanship of Mr J. Masse(lFREMER, France) in La Corufia, Spain, 24 April 1998 to:a) review the progress of the steering group established to consider how to improve the design of trawls used forbiological sampling during acoustic surveys and the use of sampling data in the estimation of biomass;b) to consider the effect of fish behaviour on stock assessment.