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Working Group II meeting 2 October 2018, Den Haag, Netherlands Agenda 12:30 Opening of the meeting by the chairman 12:35 Adoption of the agenda 12:40 Follow-up on action items 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Fishing opportunities for 2019:


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Working Group II meeting

2 October 2018, Den Haag, Netherlands

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Agenda

12:30 Opening of the meeting by the chairman 12:35 Adoption of the agenda 12:40 Follow-up on action items 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Fishing opportunities for 2019: presentation of ICES advice 14:45 Northeast Atlantic mackerel 15:00 Western horse mackerel 15:45 Southern horse mackerel 16:00 Coffee break 16:15 Boarfish 16:30 Herring 6a and 7b,c 17:10 Celtic Sea herring 17:20 Update on the landing obligation 17:40 Commission’s proposal on revising the control system 17:50 AOB 18:00 End of meeting

Working Group II, 2 October 2018, Den Haag, Netherlands

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Follow-up on action items

General

  • Follow-up with the ICES secretariat on publishing the last MIACO report (Eskild

Kirkegaard) - ongoing

  • At the next MIACO meeting list and agree the action items during the meeting

(MIACO participants) - ongoing

  • Clarify that moving the sentence about protection of spawning grounds in the

ICES herring advice has only been done for logistical reasons and that this does not present a downgrading of the importance of protecting spawning grounds (Eskild Kirkegaard, ICES) - ongoing

  • Draft internal guidelines on management strategies and rebuilding plans

(Goncalo Carvalho, Martin Pastoors)

  • Reiterate previous recommendation to the regional groups on demersal bycatch

in pelagic fisheries and boarfish closure (chairman, secretariat)

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Follow-up on action items

Irish Sea herring

  • Develop management strategy (Ian Gatt, Steven Mackinson, Alan

McCulla) - ongoing

  • Recommend to ExCom to follow ICES MSY advice (chairman) ✓

Celtic Sea herring

  • Develop recovery plan (Working Group members) - ongoing
  • Recommend to ExCom to follow ICES MSY advice (chairman) ✓
  • Find out whether year classes seem to have disappeared from the

assessment (Eskild Kirkegaard) - ongoing

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Follow-up on action items

Herring in 6a and 7b,c

  • Continue genetic, acoustic and morphometric research - ongoing
  • Ask Member States and Commission to include genetic sampling in Data

Collection Framework once a protocol has been developed (Pelagic AC) -

  • ngoing
  • Provide TAC advice for 2019 – today
  • Draft briefing paper to DG RESEARCH on genetics research (Ken Whelan,

Edward Farrell, Jens Carlsson) - ongoing

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Follow-up on action items

Boarfish

  • Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group members) - today
  • Continue work on the assessment model (Marine Institute, Working

Group members) – ongoing

Northeast Atlantic Mackerel

  • Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group members) - today
  • Follow up on choke mitigation measures (Working Group members,

chairman) – ongoing

  • Look into the logistics of including the North Sea in the mackerel egg

survey (Martin Pastoors)

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Follow-up on action items

Southern horse mackerel

  • Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group members) – today

Western horse mackerel

  • Develop recovery plan and MSE and submit outcomes to the

Commission for review by ICES (Focus Group) – ongoing

  • Seek mandate from EXCOM for the FG to develop and submit to the

Commission the recovery plan and MSE for evaluation. ✓

  • Continue stock ID project (Focus Group) – ongoing
  • Continue PFA research project (PFA) – ongoing
  • Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group members) – today

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Follow-up on action items

Control Focus Group

  • Set-up a meeting in September or October to discuss the Commission’s

proposal on revising the Control Regulation. Invite Commission and EFCA (chairman, secretariat) – ongoing

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Fishing opportunities 2018 Presentation of ICES advice by Colm Lordan

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Northeast Atlantic mackerel

  • TAC 2018 = 816 797 tonnes (management strategy)
  • ICES MSY advice 2019 = 318 403 t

Management Objectives Catch in 2019 in t % Catch change SSB in 2019 in t % SSB change Fmsy = 0.173 (for F4-8) 318 403

  • 68.2

2 117 257

+ 10.2

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Northeast Atlantic mackerel PELAC advice?

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Northeast Atlantic mackerel

Recommendations

  • Call for immediate Inter Bench Mark re RFID tagging
  • Request Coastal States to ask ICES to re-evaluate

assessment by removing RFID tagging

  • Use Agreed Three Parties Management Strategy
  • nce re-evaluation completed.
  • Support egg survey next year and seek inclusion of

North Sea

  • Follow up on choke mitigation measures

Working Group II, 4 October 2017, Den Haag, Netherlands

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Western horse mackerel Update on the focus group Martin Pastoors

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Western horse mackerel PFA self-sampling program Martin Pastoors

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Western horse mackerel Update on genetics program Edward Farrell

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Western horse mackerel

  • TAC 2018 = 117 070 t
  • Assumed catch in 2018 = 115 470 t
  • ICES MSY Advice 2019 = 145 237 t

Management Objectives Catch in 2019 in t % Advice change SSB in 2020 in t at spawning time % SSB change Fmsy 145 237 + 24 987 878 + 5

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Western horse mackerel PELAC advice?

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Western horse mackerel

Recommendations ▪ Follow ICES MSY Advice 2019 = 145,237 t

▪ Note PelAC lack of confidence in assessment

▪ Continue to Develop Management Strategy for evaluation in 2019

▪ Continue Genetics work ▪ Follow up on choke mitigation measures

Working Group II, 4 October 2017, Den Haag, Netherlands

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Southern horse mackerel

  • TAC 2018 = 55 555 t
  • Assumed catch in 2018 = 39 016 t
  • ICES MSY Advice 2019 = 94 017 t

Management Objectives Catch in 2019 in t % Catch change SSB in 2019 in t % SSB change Fmsy = 0.11 94 017 + 154 849 635

  • 5.71

Management strategy 46 368 + 26 851 646

  • 0.23

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Southern horse mackerel PELAC advice?

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Southern horse mackerel

Recommendations ▪Follow Management Strategy

▪TAC 2019 = 46,368

▪Object Commission’s use of MSY ▪Follow up on choke mitigation measures

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Boarfish 2 Years Advice 2018 & 2019

  • TAC 2018 = 21,830 t
  • ICES PA advice 2018/2019 = 21 830 t
  • 20% uncertainty cap applied
  • Discard ratio 2016: 6.6%

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Boarfish 2 Years Advice 2018 & 2019 PELAC advice?

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Boarfish 2 Years Advice 2018 & 2019

Recommendations

▪ Follow ICES Advice 2018/2019 = 21 830 t ▪ Query TAC 2018 = 20,380 t ▪ Continue work on analytical assessment ▪ Resolve issue with NWWMSs Group around PelAC Management Strategy ▪ Follow up on choke mitigation measures

Working Group II, 4 October 2017, Den Haag, Netherlands

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c Update on genetics study Edward Farrell

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c Update on industry surveys Martin Pastoors

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c

  • ICES advises zero catch in 2018 (MSY) & develop stock recovery plan
  • 2018 Advice scientific monitoring 4 840 tonnes
  • TAC 2018: 5800 tonnes (4170 t 6a north & 1630 t 6a south 7bc

(monitoring fishery)

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c PELAC advice?

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Herring in 6a and 7b,c

Recommendations

  • Immediate Evaluation Rebuilding plan
  • Continue Scientific Monitoring TAC 2019
  • Continue Genetics project
  • Continue Industry Acoustic Surveys
  • Seek Benchmark once genetic

information available

  • Follow up on choke mitigation measures

Working Group II, 4 October 2017, Den Haag, Netherlands

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Celtic Sea herring Update on recovery plan Andy Campbell

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Update on the landing obligation

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Scheveningen Member State Group and NWW Member State Group Maarten van Wegen SWW Member State Group Marta García Merchán by Webex

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Landing Obligation

Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Demersal bycatch in pelagic fisheries

High Risk – catches exceed the TAC with multiple Member States impacted

  • 1. Haddock VIIb-k
  • 2. Whiting VIIb-k
  • 3. Whiting VI
  • 4. Hake II and IV
  • 5. Whiting II and IV
  • 6. Saithe II and IV
  • 7. Whiting IIIa
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Landing Obligation

Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Pelagic bycatch in demersal fisheries

High Risk – catches exceed the TAC with multiple Member States impacted

  • 1. Horse mackerel IVb,c and VIId
  • 2. Herring VIA. VIIbc
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COM’s proposal on revising the Control System

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Focus Group Meeting Date: 7 December 2018 Venue: Amsterdam Airport Time: 2.00pm to 6.00pm

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AOB

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Thank you!

Working Group II, 2 October 2018, Den Haag, Netherlands