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As last year (IWC, 2019b, p.28), to progress regional population and health assessments of southern right whales, the Committee encourages: (i) the ongoing development of a common life-history model which aims include the estimation of demographic parameters and facilitating the investigation commonalities in southern right whale population dynamics on their wintering grounds; and (ii) the development of a global, standardised, IWC endorsed health assessment protocol to assist a synoptic assessment of southern right whale health across calving grounds. |