The second workshop of the Habitat Monitoring Working Group was held in Havana, Cuba, preceding the SC7 meeting, on October 6^th in the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in La Habana.

A workshop report is now available.

The discussion topics/schedule for the meeting were as follows: 

9:00  Welcome and summary of intersessional HMWG activities

9:15  Presentations on the submitted working papers to the 7SC to characterizing and modelling the CJM habitat:

• Preferred habitat of Jack mackerel and chub mackerel in Peruvian National waters
• Habitat Monitoring of Jack mackerel based on acoustics from fishing vessels
• Spatio-temporal distribution pattern of jack mackerel off South-central Chile

10:15  Review/discussion on the evaluate the applicability of data collected from fishing vessels targeting pelagic species

• Calibration protocols (ICES, IHMA)
• Selected case examples of use of fishing vessels with quantitative/habitat purposes (with special reference to Fisheries Research, 178)
• Review of papers focused in CJM and published in the past 20 years
• Others (as proposed by HMWG members)

12:00  Review/discussion on further developments of standardized oceanographic data products and modelling

• Characterize jack mackerel habitat (e.g., past studies done in Peru, Chile, EU)
• Provide ecosystem status overview for SC at seasonal to decadal scale
• Others (as proposed by HMWG members)

13:00  Lunch

14:30  Discussion on the Future Habitat Monitoring Workplan

• The structure of CJM population(s). 
• Review and conclude on the state of the art of habitat research in order to recommend specific lines of investigation in this topic within the framework of the SPRFMO.
• Review and conclude on the current concept of CJM habitat (based on current practice, retrospective analysis and bibliographical review).
• To define the list of existing environmental data: satellite, acoustic surveys, acoustic fisheries surveys, fishing data, fishing vessel data (VMS, Observers…) in time and space that already exist inside the SPRFMO area.
• Inventory of technologies aboard every fishing vessel authorized to operate in the SPRFMO area.
• Others (as proposed by HMWG members)

15:30  Explore possibilities to organize a symposium on the topic of pelagic habitat in the 2020s.

• Organize a workshop on the state of the art of habitat research in the same place as, and immediately before, the (next ?) SC meeting.
• Habitat suitability modelling of Jack Mackerel
• Others (as proposed by HMWG members)

16:30  Drafting of a summary report and powerpoint for the HMWG session.

18:00  End of the meeting