The sixth session of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) was held in Corpus Christi, United States of America on 3 November 2013. The Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) hosted the session at the venue of its sixty-sixth annual conference. The SAG discussed the outcomes of the work carried out by various joint working groups (Queen Conch, Recreational Fisheries, Spawning aggregations, FADs and flying fish) in 2012–2013, the fi sheries resource status in the Wider Caribbean Region, a review of the current fisheries management performance and conservation measures in the WECAFC Region, and activities to be undertaken by WECAFC in 2014–2015. The SAG further discussed WECAFC collaboration with the Fisheries Resource Management System (FIRMS) and prepared a range of recommendations for consideration by the fifteenth session of WECAFC. These recommendations related, amongst others, to increasing efforts to develop and imple ment national plans of action for the conservation and management of sharks (NPOA-Sharks), increasing work on lionfish control and management, specific tasks to be undertaken by WECAFC Working Groups, and supporting implementation of the CLME Strategic Action Programme (SAP). The list of SAG recommendations for the attention of the Commission is included in the preface of this report.