Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) – Technical Measures in the Celtic Sea (STECF-21-18)
This report synthesises the findings of the EWG-21-18 that was tasked to increase the knowledge of the current situation regarding protecting cod and whiting stocks in the Celtic Sea. EWG 21-18 has conducted a suite of analyses related to the development of technical measures (TM) for fisheries in the Celtic Sea, first of all basing these analyses on a new and updated dataset of commercial fisheries data that the North Western Waters (NWW) EU Member states (MS) group. This dataset was collated answering the implementation of an official data call, data collated via respective MS scientific data representatives and ahead of the meeting to make the commercial fisheries-related data available to the present EWG 21-18. In addition to this commercial dataset, EWG 21-18 complemented with fisheries-independent data and identified the main fleet segments contributing to the fishing mortality of cod and whiting using the latest ICES assessment coupled to the STECF FDI database (2015-2019), including the estimation of unwanted catch. Finally, EWG 21-18 analysed the ICES trawl survey DATRAS database (2009-2020) to deduce persistent hotspot areas of the cod and whiting distribution that would constitute the basis for designating candidate ICES rectangles and months to close.
SAMPEDRO Paz;
BASTARDIE Francois;
DOERNER Hendrik;
2022-01-03
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC127710
978-92-76-45886-9 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
2467-0715,
EUR 28359 EN,
OP KJ-AX-21-018-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC127710,
10.2760/194488 (online),
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