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Working Group II meeting
11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands
Agenda
Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands
12:00 Opening of the meeting by the chairman 12:05 Adoption of the agenda 12:10 Follow-up on action items 12:30 Fishing opportunities for 2017: presentation of ICES advice 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Celtic Sea Sea herring 14:15 Irish Sea herring 14:30 Herring in VIa and VIIb,c 15:00 Western horse mackerel 15:15 Southern horse mackerel 15:45 Coffee break 16:00 Presentation by EFCA on gramme sizes 16:30
NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool
16:50 AOB 17:00 End of meeting
Follow-up on action items
General
- Send a letter to ICES inquiring whether it retains the editorial
rights to stakeholder information (chairman, secretariat) ✓ Irish Sea herring
- Continue development of management strategy (Ian Gatt, Steven
Mackinson, Alan McCulla)
Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands
Follow-up on action items
Herring in 6a and 7bc
- Develop a genetic sampling protocol (6.a herring focus group) - ongoing
- Arrange a genetics workshop with ICES once the sampling protocol is
available (6.a herring focus group, Ken Whelan) - ongoing
- Find out how genetic sampling could be included in the Data Collection
Framework and report back to the Pelagic AC (Line Groth-Rasmussen) ✓
- Ask Member States and Commission to include genetic sampling in Data
Collection Framework once a protocol has been developed (Pelagic AC) -
- ngoing
- Include genetic sampling at WKSPLIT (Martin Pastoors) - ongoing
Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands
Follow-up on action items
Herring in 6a and 7bc
- Arrange meeting with DG RESEARCH to seek funding for broad pelagic
genetics project (Ken Whelan)
- Peer-review herring genetics project (Ken Whelan, AST) - ongoing
- Distribute draft rebuilding plan (secretariat) and provide comments
within two weeks (Working Group II) ✓
- Continue genetic, acoustic and morphometric research (NPWG) -
- ngoing
- Present update on genetics project at October meeting (Edward Farrell)
- ongoing
- Provide letter of support from the Pelagic AC to University College
Dublin for the herring project (chairman, secretariat) - ongoing
Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands
Follow-up on action items
Southern horse mackerel
- Present draft management strategy at PELAC July meeting (Manuela
Azevedo, Gersom Costas, José Beltran, Goncalo Carvalho, secretariat) ✓ Western horse mackerel
- Continue genetics project (NPWG, PFA) - ongoing
- Continue PFA research project (PFA) - ongoing
- Convene
focus group meeting in June to discuss draft management strategy including the proposed closure (secretariat, chairman) ✓