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01/05/2017 Agenda 11:30 Opening of the meeting by the chairman, Sean O’Donoghue 11:35 Adoption of the agenda 11:40 Follow-up on action items 11:50 Herring in 6.a & 7.b,c • Rebuilding plan (presentation & discussion) • Update genetics project (Ed Farrell, information) 12:30 Northeast Atlantic mackerel Working Group II • Benchmark results 2017 (Andy Campbell, information) 13:00 Lunch meeting 14:00 Western horse mackerel • Benchmark results 2017 (Andy Campbell, information) • Update Management Strategy & Irish Seasonal Closure (discussion) 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Agenda Action items General 14:30 NWW discard plan • Follow-up with ICES how ICES uses non-quantitative stakeholder information in • Update from the regional group (information) its ecosystem advice (chairman) • Amendments (discussion, decision) • Follow-up with ICES on the rules of including stakeholder information in the 15:10 SWW discard plan ICES advice (chairman awaiting response from ICES) • Update from the regional group (information) • Amendments (discussion, decision) • Provide recommendation to the Executive Committee to amend the pelagic 15:50 AOB discard plan in the North Sea such that it will include the relevant parts of the footnote recommendation and the mandatory collection of gramme size 16:00 End of meeting information (Working Group) ✓ • Ask Commission for an update on the Council Declaration and whether the evaluation will be carried out by STECF (chairman, secretariat) - today • Ask clarification from CNPMEM regarding the comments submitted on amending the pelagic discard plans (chairman, secretariat) ✓ Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Action items Action items Irish Sea herring • Arrange meeting with DG RESEARCH to seek funding for broad pelagic genetics project (Ken Whelan) - waiting for COM response • Develop management strategy (Ian Gatt, chairman, secretariat) - in progress • Peer-review herring genetics project (Ken Whelan, AST) - in progress • Distribute draft rebuilding plan 2 weeks prior to the April meeting (chairman, Herring in VIa and VIIb,c secretariat) today • Develop a genetic sampling protocol (6.a herring focus group) - in progress • Continue genetic, acoustic and morphometric research (NPWG) - in progress • Arrange a genetics workshop with ICES once the sampling protocol is available (6.a herring focus group, Ken Whelan) - in progress Northeast Atlantic mackerel • Ask Member States and Commission to include genetic sampling in Data • Collection Framework once a protocol has been developed (Pelagic AC) - in Invite ICES expert to give a presentation about the mackerel benchmark at the April meeting (chairman, secretariat) ✓ progress Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland 1

01/05/2017 Action items Action items Western horse mackerel Southern horse mackerel • Invite ICES expert to give a presentation about the horse mackerel benchmark at the April meeting (chairman, secretariat) ✓ • Present draft management strategy at PELAC July meeting (Manuela Azevedo, Gersom Costas, José Beltran, Goncalo Carvalho, secretariat) - in progress • Continue genetics project (NPWG, PFA) - in progress • Continue PFA research project (PFA) - in progress Boarfish • Circulate the Irish industry proposal for an Ireland seasonal closure from April to September (Working Group II) ✓ • Follow-up on boarfish closures with NWW regional group (chairman, secretariat) - waiting for response from NWW group • Discuss and evaluate the Irish Industry proposal at the April meeting - today • Resolve difficulties with the acoustic survey in progress • Convene the FG once the results of the benchmark are known - in progress • Improve the assessment model in progress • Continue to develop management strategy which will be dependent on the results of the benchmark - in progress Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Herring in 6.a and 7.b,c Herring in 6.a and 7.b,c • Rebuilding plan Update genetics project: Presentation by Martin Pastoors Presentation by Ed Farrell Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Northeast Atlantic Mackerel Western horse mackerel Benchmark results 2017: Benchmark results 2017: Presentation by Andrew Campbell Presentation by Andrew Campbell Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland 2

01/05/2017 Western horse mackerel Western horse mackerel Future Work Update management strategy & Irish Re-convene FG on Western Horse Mackerel seasonal closure Further Develop Draft Management Strategy for Western Horse Mackerel ( first draft discussed 10 December 2015) Review closure objections as part of strategy. Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Amendments to discard plans- NWW Amendments to discard plans- NWW DRAFT de minimis recommendation: • for blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), up to a maximum of 5% in Update from the NWW regional group 2018, 2019 and 2020, of the total annual catches in the industrial pelagic trawler fishery targeting that species in ICES zones Vb, VI and VII and processing that species on board to obtain surimi base; • up to a maximum of 1 % in 2018, 2019 and 2020 of the total annual catches of mackerel (Scomber scombrus), horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.), herring (Clupea harengus) and whiting (Merlangius merlangus) in the pelagic fishery with pelagic trawlers up to 25 metres in length overall, using midwater trawl (OTM) and mid-water pair trawl (PTM) targeting mackerel, horse mackerel and herring in ICES zone VIId; Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Amendments to discard plans- NWW Amendments to discard plans- SWW DRAFT survival recommendation: • Survival recommendation should be renewed Update from the SWW regional group Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland 3

01/05/2017 Amendments to discard plans- SWW Amendments to discard plans- SWW DRAFT survival recommendation: DRAFT de minimis recommendation: • we recommend to add a new exemption for artisanal purse seiners based on the current pelagic discard plan for the South Western Waters. • For blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), up to a maximum of 5% in 2018, 2019 and 2020, of the total annual catches in the industrial pelagic • The current pelagic discard plan for the South Western Waters contains the trawler fishery targeting that species in ICES zones VIII and processing that following survivability exemption: By way of derogation from Article 15(1) of species on board to obtain surimi base; Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, the landing obligation shall not apply to catches of anchovy, horse mackerel, jack mackerel and mackerel in artisanal • Up to a maximum of 4% in 2018, 2019 and 2020, of the total annual catches purse seine fisheries. All such catches may be released, provided that the net in the pelgic trawl fishery for anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus), mackerel is not fully taken onboard. (Scomber scombrus), horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) in ICES zone VIII; • We recommend that this exemption should be included in the next pelagic • In the purse seine fishery in ICES zones VIII, IX and X and in CEFAF area discard plan only to cover the area between 48° and 48°30 in the NWW (as 34.1.1, 34.1.2 and 34.2.0 targeting the following species: up to a maximum of vessels operating in the South Western Waters are also operating in that 4% in 2018, 2019 and 2020, of the total annual catches of horse mackerel small area): By way of derogation from Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No (Trachurus spp.) and mackerel (Scomber scombrus); and up to a maximum of 1380/2013, the landing obligation shall not apply to catches of anchovy, 1% in 2017, 2018 and 2020 of the total annual catches of anchovy (Engraulis horse mackerel, jack mackerel and mackerel in artisanal purse seine fisheries encrasicolus). south of 48°30 . All such catches may be released, provided that the net is not fully taken onboard. Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland AOB Thank you! Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland Working Group II, 25 April 2017, Dublin Castle, Ireland 4