Working Group I meeting - Pelagic AC O'Donoghue... · 2019. 7. 16. · Title: Working Group I meeting Author: Esben Created Date: 7/16/2019 10:57:40 AM

Working Group IImeeting

10 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

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)

Agenda


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)

Agenda


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

Follow-up on action items

• Reach consensus over PELAC recommendation on Fmsy reporting(Gonçalo Carvalho, Claus Reedtz-Sparrevohn) – postponed tillOctober meeting

• Actively participate in mackerel workshop in Bremerhaven andpropose to ExCom to send a letter requesting inclusion of theFmsy project on the workshop agenda (Chairman, ExCom,secretariat) ✓

• Follow-up why ICES advice was not based on the managementplan for Southern horse mackerel and confirm to follow themanagement plan for the 2020 advice (Commission) – updatetoday



• Discuss clarity of requests on MSEs with ICES and managers during theJuly meeting (Chairman, ICES, Commission) – update today

• Draft a briefing for DG Research on genetic sampling project andsecure DG Research attendance at future meeting (chairman, KenWhelan, 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 WorkingGroup II for the July meeting (FG members, chairman, secretariat) ✓



• Explore possibilities for inclusion of Irish WHOM logbook data tothe PFA self-sampling plan (Chairman, Martin Pastoors) - ongoing

• Respond to PELAC letter what Commission foresees to do withregard to discard estimates in future TAC setting and providedetails on the methodology for calculating the TAC reductions for

horse mackerel ✓

• Address ambiguity in figures and wording of de minimisexemptions in NWW discard plan at next HLG meeting of theNWW group and ensure the NS discard plan wording is followed –partly done

• Hold WebEx to draft detailed questions for the Commission onthe calculations of TAC reductions and the figures used forbycatch estimates (Chairman, secretariat, Gerard van Balsfoort,Jérôme Jourdain) ✓




• Circulate the request for Celtic Sea Monitoring TAC to ExCom forapproval by written procedure, and discuss this at the ExecutiveCommittee (Secretariat, ExCom, Marine Institute) ✓

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


Northeast Atlantic mackerel

• Update WKRRMAC Bremerhaven


Update WKRRMAC Bremerhaven


• ICES workshop 7- 9th of May 2019, Bremerhaven (Germany)

• Broad participation of stakeholders: scientists, CS managers, industry, NGO.

• Discussion quality of the mackerelassessment; evidence needs anddevelopment of a roadmap for future science

• PELAC was invited to present

TAC advice revisions over recent years

0

200.000

400.000

600.000

800.000

1.000.000

1.200.000

2014 2016 2017 2019

TAC TAC revised

SSB estimate revisions over recent years

0

1.000.000

2.000.000

3.000.000

4.000.000

5.000.000

6.000.000

2014 2016 2017 2019SSB 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.

(*)

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?

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

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 on QA, but has still a long way to go.

Conclusions Pelagic AC

• PELAC recommends stronger collaboration between science and industry

• PELAC highlights a number of issues to beaddressed: recruitment, survey contradictions, density dependance growth, acoustic improvements

• Overall TAC overshoot is concern

• PELAC underlines the need for an overall sharing arrangement for mackerel betweenCoastal States

Northeast Atlantic mackerel

Presentation acoustic surveys

• by Paul Fernandes


Southern horse mackerel

Follow up on ICES advice and management plan


Celtic Sea herring

• ICES advises 0 TAC in 2020 (MSY)

• TAC 2019: 4,742 tonnes (MSY)

• PELAC management plan no longer considered precautionary


Celtic Sea herring

• Status monitoring TAC


Celtic Sea herring

Adoption of PELAC advice

Decision October Meeting


Celtic Sea herring


Draft Recommendations

▪ Follow ICES advice 2020: 0 t

▪ Finalise plan for Monitoring TAC

▪ Follow up on mixing issue with Irish Sea herring


Irish Sea herring

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

• TAC 2019: 6896 tonnes (MSY)


Irish Sea herring



Irish Sea herring

Recommendations

▪ Follow ICES Advice 2020 8,064 t

▪ Commence work on management strategy ?


Herring in 6a and 7bc

• Status rebuilding plan

• Update on genetics project

• Adoption of PELAC advice


Herring in 6a and 7b,c

Status revised rebuilding plan


Update genetics project


By Edward Farrell


• ICES advises zero catch in 2020 (MSY)

• 2019 Advice: zero catch and implement stock recovery plan



Draft Recommendations


• Resolve rebuilding plan issue• Continue Scientific Monitoring TAC for

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


Western horse mackerel

• Update from the Focus Group

• Timeframe



Update from the Focus Group

• By Claus Reedtz-Sparrevohn

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

on rebuilding plans.


Recommendation from the Focus Group

Seek mandate to submit outcomes to WGWIDE 2019



Timeframe


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 rebuildingplanned in February 2020


PELAC recommendations on revision of the Control Regulation


➢ 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

PELAC recommendations on revision of the Control Regulation


Draft recommendations

•Article by Article review

Update on Member States discard plans


• JRs revised demersal discard plans submitted Commission May/June 2019

•Revision pelagic discard plans not before 2020

Scheveningen Joint Recommendation


4.3.2. De minimis request for horse mackerel for demersal vessels using bottomtrawls (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)

NWW Joint Recommendation


5.Point e-2• For horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) up to a maximum of 7% for 2020; 6% for2021, of the total annual by-catches of that species - caught in demersal mixedfisheries - 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 anddivisions 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

SWW Joint Recommendation


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

SWW Joint Recommendation


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

PELAC opinion paper de minimis calculations


➢ 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 exemptionsand deductions’



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



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



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



• 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

AOB


Thank you!


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Working Group I meeting - Pelagic AC O'Donoghue... · 2019. 7. 16. · Title: Working Group I meeting Author: Esben Created Date: 7/16/2019 10:57:40 AM