Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries. Impact Assessment of Bay of Biscay sole (STECF-11-01)
This report is one of two reports of EWG 11-01 of the STECF Expert Working Group on management
plans, (28 February to 4 March 2011) and provides an Impact Assessment report on the Bay of Biscay
sole fisheries. It summaries biological modelling of a range of different stock dynamics incorporating
uncertainty in stock recruitment function and measurement error. The results from an integrated bioeconomic
model showing economic impact on the sole fishery in the Bay of Biscay are presented. The
simulations carried out show that a target F of 0.26 (Fmsy ) can be accepted as precautionary in the
long term. Target Fs between 0.15 and 0.35 will give yields within 5% of yield at F=0.26. Economic
considerations suggest that the management plan is expected to have slight long term gains and short
term negative economic impacts for all the fleets involved in the sole fishery. The economic viability
of fleets is not endangered and effort reallocation is expected to offset losses although it is difficult to
predict such reallocation. The report provides details of approaches that could be used if the ICES
assessment fails. The report has been endorsed by the STECF during its 36th plenum in April 2011.
SIMMONDS Edmund;
BIAIS G.;
BERTIGNAC M.;
MACHER Claire;
MERZEREAUD Mathieu;
SCOTT Robert;
VANHEE Willy;
2011-05-25
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC64947
978-92-79-20197-4,
1018-5593 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 24814 EN,
OP LB-NA-24814-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC64947,
10.2788/18713,
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