Report of the NAFO Commission Ad hoc Working Group to Reflect on the Rules Governing Bycatches, Discards and Selectivity (WG-BDS) in the NAFO Regulatory Area Meeting

1. Opening by the Chair, Temur Tairov (Russian Federation) 2. Appointment of Rapporteur 3. Adoption of Agenda 4. Discussion of the bycatch analysis performed by Scientific Council and the Secretariat 5. Action Plan in the Management and Minimization of Bycatch and Discards 6. Other Matters a. STACTIC Intersessional Meeting, May 2017 b. WG-CR/CDAG Meeting, February and May 2017 c. NAFO Working Group on Improving Efficiency of NAFO Working Group Process 7. Recommendations to forward to the Commission 8. Adoption of Report 9. Adjournmen

Report of the NAFO Joint Fisheries Commission-Scientific Council Working Group on Catch Reporting (WG-CR)

1. Opening 2. Appointment of Rapporteur 3. Adoption of Agenda 4. Review and provision of guidance of the catch estimation process and catch estimates of the priority Stocks 2+3KLMNO Greenland halibut, 3LNO American plaice, and 3M Cod a. Work conducted by the NAFO Joint Fisheries Commission-Scientific Council Catch Data Advisory Group (CDAG) on the evaluation of the data sources and the development of catch estimate methodology, b. Work conducted by the Secretariat on the validation of the 2016 catch estimates. 5. Discussion on the project proposal Study on Catch Estimates Methodologies 6. Discussion on the future of this WG and the Catch Data Advisory Group 7. Advice for data collection for the NAFO Observer Program 8. Recommendations to forward to FC and SC 9. Other Matters a. NAFO Working Group on Improving Efficiency of NAFO Working Group Process 10. Adoption of Report 11. Adjournmen