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Working Group II meeting
12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Agenda
Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands
13:30 Opening of the meeting 13:35 Adoption of the agenda 13:40 Follow-up on action items 14:00 Western horse mackerel
- Outcome of Focus Group meeting
- Update on PFA research project
- Way forward
14:45 Celtic Sea herring
- State of play
- Way forward
15:00 Coffee break 15:15 Landing obligation
- Choke mitigation tool
- Other potential solutions to categoty 3 chokes
16:15 AOB 16:30 End of meeting
Action items
General
- Await response from ICES on the issue that stakeholders should have
the right to withdraw their information if it is going to be changed in the advice sheets (Carmen Fernandez, chairman) -ongoing
- Draft briefing paper to DG RESEARCH on genetics research (Ken
Whelan, Edward Farrell, Jens Carlsson) -ongoing
- Invite DG RESEARCH to the next Working Group II meeting that will
deal extensively with genetics (secretariat) -ongoing
- Follow up on choke mitigation measures for all relevant stocks
(Working Group members) -today
- Circulate the flyer of the final symposium of the Fmsy research
project (secretariat) ✓
Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Action items
Irish Sea herring
- Continue development of management strategy (Ian Gatt, Steven
Mackinson, Alan McCulla) -ongoing
- Circulate report of WKIRISH once available (secretariat) -ongoing
Celtic Sea herring
- Develop recovery plan (Working Group members) –update today
- Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group members) -October
2018
Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Action items
Herring in 6a and 7b,c
- Develop a genetic sampling protocol (6a herring focus group) -ongoing
- Arrange a genetics workshop with ICES once the sampling protocol is
available (6a herring focus group, Ken Whelan) -ongoing
- Ask Member States and Commission to include genetic sampling in Data
Collection Framework once a protocol has been developed (Pelagic AC) -
- ngoing
- Peer-review herring genetics project (Ken Whelan, AST) -ongoing
- Continue genetic, acoustic and morphometric research (NPWG) -ongoing
- Re-submit recovery plan for evaluation (secretariat) ✓
- Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group) -October 2018
Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Action items
Boarfish
- Follow up on closures at the next meeting of the NWW regional group
(chairman) ✓
- Provide TAC advice for 2019 (Working Group members) -October 2018
- Continue work on the assessment model (Marine Institute, Working
Group members) -ongoing
Working Group II, 12 April 2018, Den Haag, The Netherlands