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Working Group II meeting 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal Agenda 12:00 Opening of the meeting 12:05 Adoption of the agenda 12:10 Follow-up on action items 12:30 Fishing opportunities 2019: presentation of ICES advice Celtic Sea

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Working Group II meeting

10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

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Agenda

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

12:00 Opening of the meeting 12:05 Adoption of the agenda 12:10 Follow-up on action items 12:30 Fishing opportunities 2019: presentation of ICES advice

  • Celtic Sea herring
  • Irish Sea herring

13:00 Lunch 14:00 Fishing opportunities 2019: presentation of ICES advice

  • Herring in 6a and 7b,c
  • Special Request Boarfish & Greater Silver Smelt

14:30 Northeast Atlantic mackerel

  • Update WKRRMAC in Bremerhaven
  • Presentation acoustic surveys by Paul Fernandes

(information)

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Agenda

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

15:00 Southern horse mackerel

  • Follow-up ICES advice and management plan

15:10 Celtic Sea herring

  • Status monitoring plan (information)
  • Adoption of PELAC advice (decision)

15:30 Irish Sea herring

  • Adoption of PELAC advice (decision)

15:40 Herring in 6a and 7bc

  • Status rebuilding plan (information)
  • Update on genetics project by Edward Farrell (information)
  • Adoption of PELAC advice (decision)

16:20 Coffee break 16:35 Western horse mackerel

  • Update from the Focus Group (information)
  • Timeframe (information)
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Agenda

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

16:55 PELAC recommendations on proposal for the revision of the Control Regulaiton (decision) 17:15 Landing Obligation

  • Update Member States discard plans (information)
  • PELAC Opinion paper on de minimis exemptions and

TAC reduction calculations (information, decision) 17:45 AOB 18:00 End of meeting Wine tasting organised between 19.00 – 20.00 hrs in the same building

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Follow-up on action items

  • Reach consensus over PELAC recommendation on Fmsy reporting

(Gonçalo Carvalho, Claus Reedtz-Sparrevohn) – postponed till October meeting

  • Actively participate in mackerel workshop in Bremerhaven and

propose to ExCom to send a letter requesting inclusion of the Fmsy project on the workshop agenda (Chairman, ExCom, secretariat) ✓

  • Follow-up why ICES advice was not based on the management

plan for Southern horse mackerel and confirm to follow the management plan for the 2020 advice (Commission) – update today

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Follow-up on action items

  • Discuss clarity of requests on MSEs with ICES and managers during the

July meeting (Chairman, ICES, Commission) – update today

  • Draft a briefing for DG Research on genetic sampling project and

secure DG Research attendance at future meeting (chairman, Ken Whelan, secretariat) –remove from list until further progress

  • Follow-up on revised rebuilding plan and evaluation for 6a herring:

respond to Pelagic AC letter and find solution before July meeting (Commission, ICES, chairman, secretariat) – update today

  • Finalize and present draft recommendations Control FG to Working

Group II for the July meeting (FG members, chairman, secretariat) ✓

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Follow-up on action items

  • Explore possibilities for inclusion of Irish WHOM logbook data to

the PFA self-sampling plan (Chairman, Martin Pastoors) - ongoing

  • Respond to PELAC letter what Commission foresees to do with

regard to discard estimates in future TAC setting and provide details on the methodology for calculating the TAC reductions for horse mackerel ✓

  • Address ambiguity in figures and wording of de minimis

exemptions in NWW discard plan at next HLG meeting of the NWW group and ensure the NS discard plan wording is followed – partly done

  • Hold WebEx to draft detailed questions for the Commission on

the calculations of TAC reductions and the figures used for bycatch estimates (Chairman, secretariat, Gerard van Balsfoort, Jérôme Jourdain) ✓

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Follow-up on action items

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  • Circulate the request for Celtic Sea Monitoring TAC to ExCom for

approval by written procedure, and discuss this at the Executive Committee (Secretariat, ExCom, Marine Institute) ✓

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Fishing opportunities 2020 Presentation of ICES advice by Colm Lordan, vice-chair of ACOM ➢ Celtic Sea Herring ➢ Irish sea Herring ➢ Herring 6a, 7 bc ➢ Special request Boarfish &Greater Silver Smelt

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Northeast Atlantic mackerel

  • Update WKRRMAC Bremerhaven

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Update WKRRMAC Bremerhaven

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  • ICES workshop 7- 9th of May 2019,

Bremerhaven (Germany)

  • Broad participation of stakeholders:

scientists, CS managers, industry, NGO.

  • Discussion quality of the mackerel

assessment; evidence needs and development of a roadmap for future science

  • PELAC was invited to present
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TAC advice revisions over recent years

200.000 400.000 600.000 800.000 1.000.000 1.200.000 2014 2016 2017 2019 TAC TAC revised

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SSB estimate revisions over recent years

1.000.000 2.000.000 3.000.000 4.000.000 5.000.000 6.000.000 2014 2016 2017 2019

SSB SSB revised

(*) Absence SSB figure (2014): No advice was issued the first time. ICES rejected the age- based assessment and used the average of catches for the previous three years to give advice.

(*)

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New perception in SSB 2019 (inter-benchmark): Substantial upward revision

4.16 Mt 2.35 Mt

Is the advice robust enough for long term fisheries management?

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New perception in SSB 2019 (inter-benchmark): Substantial upward revision

4.16 Mt 2.35 Mt

Is the advice robust enough for long term fisheries management?

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Update WKRRMAC Bremerhaven

Quality assurance is key

  • ICES needs a robust system that identifies CCP’s and monitors/

controls these points throughout the entire process : ➢ Planning ➢ Data collection ➢ Storage and transfer ➢ Every data source ➢ Data analysis ➢ Modelling & Model used ➢ ICES advice process ➢ Issuing of Advice Example: RFID tagging data in the assessment

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Conclusions Pelagic AC

  • Volatility in ICES NEA mackerel advice is a major

concern

  • Robust (pref. ISO-accredited) quality assurance

required

  • Quality assurance must cover entire ICES

assessment and advisory process

  • NB. The Pelagic AC recognizes that ICES has begun the work
  • n QA, but has still a long way to go.
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Conclusions Pelagic AC

  • PELAC recommends stronger collaboration

between science and industry

  • PELAC highlights a number of issues to be

addressed: recruitment, survey contradictions, density dependance growth, acoustic improvements

  • Overall TAC overshoot is concern
  • PELAC underlines the need for an overall

sharing arrangement for mackerel between Coastal States

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Northeast Atlantic mackerel Presentation acoustic surveys

  • by Paul Fernandes

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Southern horse mackerel Follow up on ICES advice and management plan

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Celtic Sea herring

  • ICES advises 0 TAC in 2020 (MSY)
  • TAC 2019: 4,742 tonnes (MSY)
  • PELAC management plan no longer considered precautionary

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Celtic Sea herring

  • Status monitoring TAC

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Celtic Sea herring Adoption of PELAC advice Decision October Meeting

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Celtic Sea herring

Decision October Meeting Draft Recommendations

▪ Follow ICES advice 2020: 0 t ▪ Finalise plan for Monitoring TAC ▪ Follow up on mixing issue with Irish Sea herring

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Irish Sea herring

  • ICES advises catches of no more than 8,064 tonnes in 2020 (MSY)
  • TAC 2019: 6896 tonnes (MSY)

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Irish Sea herring

Adoption of PELAC advice

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Irish Sea herring

Recommendations

▪ Follow ICES Advice 2020 8,064 t ▪ Commence work on management strategy ?

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Herring in 6a and 7bc

  • Status rebuilding plan
  • Update on genetics project
  • Adoption of PELAC advice

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c Status revised rebuilding plan

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Update genetics project

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By Edward Farrell

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c

  • ICES advises zero catch in 2020 (MSY)
  • 2019 Advice: zero catch and implement stock recovery plan

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c Adoption of PELAC advice Decision October Meeting

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c

Draft Recommendations Decision October Meeting

  • Resolve rebuilding plan issue
  • Continue Scientific Monitoring TAC for

2020

  • Continue Genetics project
  • Continue Industry Acoustic Surveys
  • Seek Benchmark end 2020

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Western horse mackerel

  • Update from the Focus Group
  • Timeframe

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Western horse mackerel

Update from the Focus Group

  • By Claus Reedtz-Sparrevohn

FG held on 20th June 2019 around two days ad hoc working group

  • n rebuilding plans.

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Recommendation from the Focus Group

Seek mandate to submit

  • utcomes to WGWIDE 2019

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Western horse mackerel Timeframe

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Timeframe

  • WebEx ad-hoc WG in August 2019
  • Submission to Commission & WGWIDE
  • In advance of WGWIDE end August 2019
  • Use as input for ICES workshop on rebuilding

planned in February 2020

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PELAC recommendations on revision of the Control Regulation

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

➢ 2nd Focus Group meeting June 5 2019, discuss PELAC comments Commission proposal revision Control Regulation ➢ Result: Consensus draft-recommendation agreed industry & OIG members ➢ Now presented to WG II for approval (next item) ➢ General action point from meeting: devote more efforts to explain nature of pelagic fisheries (e.g. feasibility of bycatch quantification) towards policy- makers

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PELAC recommendations on revision of the Control Regulation

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

Draft recommendations

  • Article by Article review
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Update on Member States discard plans

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  • JRs revised demersal discard

plans submitted Commission May/June 2019

  • Revision pelagic discard plans

not before 2020

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Scheveningen Joint Recommendation

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

4.3.2. De minimis request for horse mackerel for demersal vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, PTB, TBB) of mesh size 80-99mm (TR2, BT 2) in the North Sea (ICES area 4). The Scheveningen Group recommends a continued de minimis exemption for by- catches of horse mackerel, up to a maximum of 7% for 2020 and 6% for 2021 of the total annual catches of horse mackerel caught in demersal fisheries, for the trawler mixed fishery using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, PTB, TBB) with a mesh size of 80-99 mm in ICES area 4. Based on STECF data for all European vessels a de minimis exemption of 7% of horse mackerel bycatches would correspond to total quantities of 189t of discarded horse mackerel for the entire North Sea on a 2013-2016 basis. The scientific evidence underpinning the exemption can be found in Annex I.

  • Same wording applies to mackerel eccept total

quantities of 77t of discarded mackerel for the entire North Sea on a 2013-2016 basis (Annex J)

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NWW Joint Recommendation

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5.Point e-2

  • For horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) up to a maximum of 7% for 2020; 6% for

2021, of the total annual by-catches of that species - caught in demersal mixed fisheries - by vessels using bottom trawls, seines and beam trawls (OTB, OTT, OT, PTB, PT, SSC, SDN, SPR, SX, SV, TBB, TBN, TBS, TB, TX) in ICES subarea VI and divisions VIIb-k.

  • For mackerel (Scomber scombrus) up to a maximum of 7% for 2020; 6% for

2021, of the total annual by-catches of that species - caught in demersal mixed fisheries - by vessels using bottom trawls, seines and beam trawls (OTB, OTT, OT, PTB, PT, SSC, SDN, SPR, SX, SV, TBB, TBN, TBS, TB, TX) in ICES subarea VI and divisions VIIbk. Further details in Annexes providing specific additional information

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SWW Joint Recommendation

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  • ii. For horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) up to a maximum of 7% in 2020, up to a maximum 6% in

2021, of the total annual catches of these species made by vessels using beam trawl, bottom trawls and seines (gear codes : OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TBB, OT, PT, TX, SSC, SPR, SDN, SX, SV) in fisheries in ICES subareas 8 and 9 (ANNEX F and ANNEX E2);

  • iii. For horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) up to a maximum of 3% of the total annual catches of

these species made by vessels using gillnets (gear codes: GNS, GND, GNC, GTR, GTN) in fisheries in ICES subareas 8, 9, 10 and CECAF areas 34.1.1, 34.1.2, 34.2.0 (ANNEX G and ANNEX E2);

  • iv. For mackerel (Scomber scombrus) up to a maximum of 7% in 2020, and up to a maximum of

6% in 2021, of the total annual catches of these species made by beam trawl, bottom trawls and seines (gear codes : OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TBB, OT, PT, TX, SSC, SPR, SDN, SX, SV) in fisheries in ICES subareas 8 and 9 (ANNEX H and ANNEX E2);

  • v. For mackerel (Scomber scombrus) up to a maximum of 3% of the total annual catches of these

species made by gillnets (gear codes: GNS, GND, GNC, GTR, GTN) in fisheries in ICES subareas 8, 9 and CECAF areas 34.1.1, 34.1.2, 34.2.0 (ANNEX I and ANNEX E2);

  • 5. High survivability, de minimis and Predator damaged fish Exemptions
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SWW Joint Recommendation

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  • vii. For boarfish (Caproidae) up to a maximum of 7%

in 2020, and up to a maximum of 6% in 2021, of the total annual catches of these species made by vessels using beam trawl, bottom trawls and seines (gear codes : OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TBB, OT, PT, TX, SSC, SPR, SDN, SX, SV) in fisheries in ICES subarea 8 (ANNEX E2);

  • 5. High survivability, de minimis and Predator damaged fish Exemptions
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PELAC opinion paper de minimis calculations

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

➢ PELAC position discussion & approval ➢ Reviewing Commission’s calculations deduct quota species under de minimis; notably horse mackerel ➢ Following Commission note on ‘calculations of discard plan exemptions and deductions’

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PELAC opinion paper de minimis calculations

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

Commission capped STECF data (4902+522t) to ICES Discard Rate? TAC 2019 = (17.517-2338) = 15.179 t instead of (17.517- 451)= 17.066 t (!)

*According to STECF data and exemption in NWW demersal discard plan;

**According to pelagic discard plans (1% combined de minimis for 4 species) North Sea Horse mackerel ICES TAC advice 2019 17,517 t ICES Discard rate 2338 t STECF data (demersal discard plan exemption) * 451 t STECF data (pelagic discard plan exemption)** 4902+522 t

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PELAC opinion paper de minimis calculations

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Commission capped STECF data (6773t) to ICES Discard Rate? TAC 2019: (125.387- 6269) = 119.118 t instead of (125.387 – 251) = 125.136 t (!)

*According to STECF data and exemption in SWW demersal discard plan **According to SWW pelagic discard plans (1% combined de minimis for 4 species) Western Horse mackerel ICES TAC advice 2019 125,387 t ICES Discard rate 6269 t STECF data (demersal discard plan exemption) * 251 t STECF data (pelagic discard plan exemption)** 6773 t

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PELAC opinion paper de minimis calculations

Working Group II, 10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

PELAC conclusions: ➢ Incorrect methods applied deductions NS & Western horse mackerel; ➢ Deductions based de minimis pelagic discard plans 4 species combined; ➢ Only the TAC horse mackerel deducted ➢ Why deductions not over the other species? ➢ The combined de minimis figures theoretical. ➢ The deductions should be based on actual figures ➢ Only apply to vessels below 25 meters. ➢ ICES advice discarding in target pelagic fisheries is considered negligible

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PELAC opinion paper de minimis calculations

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  • Discussion PELAC position

The Pelagic AC not opposed to TAC reductions to compensate for de minimis exemptions. BUT: ➢ Deductions calculated consistent & transparent way across all species, and ➢ Not based theoretical figures that lead disproportionate & unrealistic high reductions

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AOB

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Thank you!

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