Under the terms of Council Resolution 2ACFM17, the Study Group on the Further Development of the Precautionary Approach to Fishery Management [SGPA] (Co-chairs: C. Bannister, UK and M.Azevedo, Portugal) met at ICES Headquarters from 2-6 December 2002 to:
a) define the technical guidelines for the revision of reference point values for use by SGBRP and SGPRP;
b) specify the software to be used in the revision of reference values, and a format for the presentation of the relevant data and results
c) commence the development of a framework for specifying and monitoring rebuilding plans that take into account the status and dynamics of stocks, technical interactions, uncertainty, time period and risk, and the data required
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