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The seventh session of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) was held in Panama City, Panama on 7-8 November 2015. The Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) hosted the session at the venue of its sixty-eight annual conference. The SAG discussed the outcomes of the work carried out by various joint working groups in 2014–2015 and their recommendations to WECAFC 16, the fisheries resource status in the Wider Caribbean Region, and activities to be undertaken by WECAFC in 2016–2017. The SAG further got updated on WECAFC collaboration with the Fisheries Resource Management System (FIRMS), and collaboration on fisheries research in the region. A list of specific SAG recommendations for the attention of WECAFC 16 is included in the preface of the report.