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SIFT is a Scottish Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee (No.399582)Registered Scottish Charity (No.SC042334)

The Clyde

Using the ecosystem based management approach

Charles MillarDirector

Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust

Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust

Scottish charity founded in 2011 with following aim:The sustainable management of Scotland’s inshore waters so that marine eco-systems provide the maximum long term social and economic benefits to Scotland’s coastal communities.

Projects• Supporting fair representation of all fisheries• Inshore Finfish Monitoring, with SNH, RAFTS• Firth of Clyde Project

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Firth of Clyde

• 3700km2 of inshore waters• UK’s Inland Sea• Fin-fisheries collapsed after

ban on trawling and dredging lifted

• Remaining fishery for Scallops and Nephrops

• Fishery of last resort

Limit of former 3 mile exclusion area

Collapse of Clyde fin fisheries

Fin fish landings 1960 - 2010

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Firth of Clyde objectives

Three year project to revise the management of the Firth.

• Restore ecosystem diversity through the protection of the seabed and other measures

• Improve resilience of the fishery• Increase employment in marine industries• Increase local management

Ecosystem based management

Definitions• Promotes sustainable use in an equitable way

Convention on Biodiversity• Catering for both human and ecosystem well being.

Food & Agriculture Organisation

Characteristics• Consideration of conflicting objectives• Balancing the distribution of benefits• Decentralising management

Proposed management measuresImplement a Regulating Order

• Prescribed area and time period • Spatially Separated Fishing Zones – Continue use of mobile gear in less sensitive areas– Protect areas with greatest capacity to recover

and support biodiversity recovery• Effort Control– Licence numbers– Hours

Proposed management measures

Spatial management based upon seabed habitats

Clyde Fishery Management Organisation (CFMO)

New organisation which will be grantee for the Regulating Order.

• Board comprised of local fishery interests and other stakeholders

• Will have powers to manage the fishery• Funded by revenues from levies or licences from the

commercial fishery

Clyde Science Trust

New body to provide the scientific expertise to underpin fishery management plan. Will inform:

• identification of ecosystem baselines• quota systems for the key commercial fisheries • spatial management plans of Clyde• monitoring of fisheries performance

Clyde project

Timescale• Submit Regulating Order Application in Q2 2014• Ministerial approval following Public Inquiry - 2015

Other issues• MPAs• Inshore Fishery Groups• Clyde 2020 Vision• Independence Referendum

Interaction with MPAs, MCAs in the proposed RO area

RO area• North of closing line from

Mull of Kintyre to Corsewall

Point, to MLWS

Proposed MPAs• U. Loch Fyne & Loch Goil• South Arran• Clyde Sill

MCAs • Loch Ryan• Cumbraes