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EU Data Collection Fram ew ork

Jørgen Dalskov Senior Fisheries Advisor National Correspondent for the DCF DTU Aqua

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EU Com m on Fisheries Policy

• The CFP shall ensure that fishing and aquaculture activities are

environmentally sustainable in the long-term and are managed in a way that is consistent with the objectives of achieving economic, social and employment benefits, and of contributing to the availability of food supplies.

• The CFP shall apply the precautionary approach to fisheries management,

and shall aim to ensure that exploitation of living marine biological resources restores and maintains populations of harvested species above levels which can produce the MSY.

• The CFP shall be based on a precautionary approach recognizing human

activities on all ecosystem components.

• The CFP shall implement the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries

management so as to ensure that negative impacts of fishing activities

• n the marine ecosystem are minimised, and shall endeavour to ensure

that aquaculture and fisheries activities avoid the degradation of the marine environment.

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EU Com m on Fisheries Policy ( article 2 5 )

Data requirem ents for fisheries m anagem ent

• 1. Member States shall collect biological, environmental, technical, and socio-

economic data necessary for fisheries management, manage those data and make them available to end–users, including bodies designated by the

• Commission. Those data shall, in particular, enable the assessment of:
• the state of exploited marine biological resources.
• the level of fishing and the impact that fishing activities have on the marine

biological resources and on the marine ecosystems; and

• the socio-economic performance of the fisheries, aquaculture and processing

sectors within and outside Union waters.

• 2. The collection, management and use of data shall be based on the following

principles:

• accuracy and reliability, and collection in a timely manner;
• avoiding duplication of data collection for different purposes;
• safe storage and protection of collected data in computerised databases, and

their public availability where appropriate, including at aggregated level, whilst ensuring confidentiality;

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Data Collection Fram ew ork ( DCF) legal setup

COUNCI L REGULATI ON (EC) No 199/ 2008 of 25 February 2008 concerning the establishment of a Community framework for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the Common Fisheries Policy. COMMI SSI ON I MPLEMENTI NG DECI SI ON (EU) 2016/ 1251 of 12 July 2016 adopting a multiannual Union programme for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors for the period 2017-2019. COMMI SSI ON I MPLEMENTI NG DECI SI ON (EU) 2016/ 1701 of 19 August 2016 laying down rules on the format for the submission of work plans for data collection in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

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Recast of Council Regulation 1 9 9 / 2 0 0 8

• I n order to facilitate regional coordination, regional coordination groups

(RCG) shall be established by the relevant Member States for each marine region.

• RCGs shall consist of experts from Member States, including National

Correspondents and the Commission.

• I n preparing its work plan, each Member State shall, in the framework
• f the RCGs cooperate and coordinate its efforts with other Member

States within the same marine region, to ensure sufficient and efficient coverage and avoid duplication of data collection activities.

• RCGs shall aim at developing and implementing procedures, methods,

quality assurance and quality control for collecting and processing data with a view to enable further improvement of the reliability of scientific

• advice. For this purpose, Regional Coordination Groups may develop

and implement regional data bases.

• Representatives of relevant end-users of scientific data, including the

appropriate scientific bodies as referred to in Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 1380/ 2013, regional fisheries management organisations and third countries shall be invited to attend the meetings of the Regional Coordination Groups as observers, where needed.

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EU Multi Annual Program m e ( EU-MAP)

Data types to be collected:

 biological data, by catch fraction, on stocks caught by Union commercial fisheries in Union and outside Union waters and by recreational fisheries in Union waters;  data to assess the impact of Union fisheries on the marine ecosystem in Union waters and outside Union waters;  detailed data on the activity of Union fishing vessels in Union waters and outside Union waters as reported under Regulation (EC) No 1224/ 2009;  social and economic data on fisheries;  social, economic and environmental data on aquaculture;

• Data shall be collected to enable valid estimates to be derived for the

type of fisheries, temporal periods and areas based on end-user needs agreed at marine region level. The frequency of data collection is to be coordinated at marine region level

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Biological data on stocks caught by Union com m ercial fisheries in Union and outside Union w aters and by recreational fisheries in Union w aters.

Catch quantities by species and biological data from individual specimens enabling the estimation of:

• For commercial fisheries, volume and length frequency of all catch

fractions (including discards and unwanted catches) for a number of

• stocks. The temporal resolution shall be coordinated at marine region

level based on end-user needs;

• For commercial fisheries, mean-weight and age distribution of catches

for a number of stocks. The selection of stocks from which these variables have to be collected and the temporal resolution shall be coordinated at marine region level based on end-user needs;

• For commercial fisheries, sex-ratio, maturity and fecundity data of

catches for a number of stocks and at frequencies needed for scientific

• advice. The selection of stocks from which these variables have to be

collected and the temporal resolution shall be coordinated at marine region level based on end-user needs;

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Biological data # 2

For recreational fisheries, annual volume (numbers and weights or length) of catches and releases for selected species or the species identified at marine region level as needed for fisheries management purposes. End-user needs for age or other biological data as for commercial catches Data collection on anadromous and catadromous for a number of species caught by commercial fisheries during the freshwater part of their lifecycle, irrespective of the way these fisheries are undertaken Eel, information (e.g. data, estimates, relative trends, etc.) collected annually in at least one river basin per eel management unit on:

• the abundance of recruits;
• the abundance of the standing stock (yellow eel); and
• the number or weight and sex ratio of emigrating silver eels;

Wild salmon, information collected annually — unless agreed otherwise at regional level — on the abundance of smolt and parr and number of ascending individuals.

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Data to assess the im pact of Union fisheries

• n m arine ecosystem s in Union w aters and
• utside Union w aters

Those data shall consist of the following:

• For all types of fisheries, incidental by-catch of all birds, mammals and reptiles

and fish protected under Union legislation and international agreements, including the species listed in Table 1D, including absence in the catch, during scientific observer trips on fishing ships or by the fishers themselves through logbooks.

• Data to assist in the assessment of the impact of fisheries in Union waters and
• utside Union waters on marine habitats.
• Data for estimating the level of fishing and the impact of fishing activities on

marine biological resources and on marine ecosystems, such as effects on non- commercial species, predator-prey relationships and natural mortality of fish species in each marine region. These data shall be first assessed within pilot studies. Based on the outcomes of these pilot studies, Member States shall determine future data collection specific for each marine region, coordinated at marine region level and based on end- user needs.

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Collection of social, econom ic and environm ental data

• Social and economic data on fisheries to enable the assessment
• f the social and economic performance of the Union fisheries

sector.

• Social, economic and environmental data on marine

aquaculture, and optionally on freshwater aquaculture, to enable the assessment of the social, economic and environmental performance of the Union aquaculture sector.

• Social and economic data on the processing industry. Optional.

(this section is not in the EU-MAP but in the DCF and the WP template.

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Research surveys at sea

 At least all research mandatory surveys at sea shall be carried

• ut, unless a review of surveys leads to the conclusion that a

survey is no longer appropriate for informing stock assessment and fisheries management.  Member States' respective contribution to international research surveys shall be coordinated within the same marine region.  Member States shall guarantee within their national work plans continuity with previous survey designs.

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Thresholds

No biological data need to be collected if, for a certain fish stock or species:

• a Member State's share of the related total allowable catch (TAC) is less

than 10 % of the total of the Union; or

• in case no TAC is fixed, the total landings of a Member State of a stock
• r species are less than 10 % of the average total EU landings in the

previous 3 years; or

• the total annual landings of a Member State of a species is less than

200 tonnes. For species with a specific management need, a lower threshold may be defined at marine region level.

• When the sum of the relevant quotas of several Member States, whose

share of a TAC is less than 10 % , is higher than 25 % of the share of the TAC for a certain stock, the 10 % threshold shall not apply and Member States shall ensure task-sharing at regional level in order to ensure that the stock is covered by sampling in concordance with end- user needs.

• No threshold shall apply to large pelagic species and anadromous and

catadromous species.

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Threshold

Member States shall provide catch estimates from existing recreational fishery surveys or new pilot study surveys

• These surveys shall allow assessment of the share of catches

from recreational fisheries in relation to commercial catches for all species in a marine region for which recreational catch estimates are required under this multiannual Union programme.

• The subsequent design and extent of national surveys of

recreational fisheries, including any thresholds for data collection, shall be coordinated at marine region level and shall be based on end-user needs.

• No threshold shall apply to recreational catches of fish stocks

which are subject to recovery or multiannual management plans such as those applying to large pelagic species and highly migratory species.

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Threshold

Surveys at sea A Member State's participation (physical or financial) in mandatory research surveys at sea is not mandatory when its share of the EU TAC or if no TAC is set its share of the total EU landings of the preceding 3 years of the survey target species is below a threshold of 3 % . Thresholds for multispecies and ecosystem surveys may be defined at marine region level. Aquaculture

• No social and economic data on aquaculture need to be collected if the total

production of the Member State is less than 1 % of the total Union production volume and value.

• No data need to be collected on aquaculture for species accounting for less than

10 % of the Member State's aquaculture production by volume and value.

• No environmental data on aquaculture need to be collected where the total

aquaculture production of the Member State is less than 2,5 % of the total Union aquaculture production volume and value.

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Table 1 D of the EU-MAP

Examples of species on the HELCOM list of protected species: More than half of the list should be deleted due to reasons as in the table.

Com m on nam e Scientific nam e I ssue in relation to the HELCOM area Allis shad Alosa alosa Outskirts of distribution area Rabbit fish Chimaera monstosa Outskirts of distribution area Zope Abramis ballerus Freshwater species Haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus Outskirts of distribution area Pollack Pollachius pollachius Outskirts of distribution area Ling Molva molva Outskirts of distribution area Roundnose grenadier Coryphaenoides rupestris Outskirts of distribution area. > 400m Redfish Sebastes marinus Outskirts of distribution area Norway redfish Sebastes viviparus Outskirts of distribution area Atlantic halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus Outside distribution area

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EU Com m on Fisheries Policy

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