The Secretariat shall:
a) assist in obtaining funds from interested Parties, intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations, exporters, importers and other
stakeholders, to support a technical workshop of relevant experts
on the conservation of sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae
and Stichopodidae;
b) contingent on the availability of external funding, cooperate
with other relevant bodies, including the fisheries sector, to convene
a technical workshop to consider and review biological and trade information
that would assist in establishing conservation priorities and actions
to secure the conservation status of sea cucumbers in these families;
and
c) contract the preparation of a document for discussion at the
technical workshop. This document should contain all relevant available
information concerning the status, catches and bycatches of, and trade
in specimens of species in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae
and on any domestic measures for their conservation and protection,
and a review of the adequacy of such measures.
