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the bass trawl fishery and the possibilities for improving their exploitation pattern as part of the harvest strategy. The only reference I could find to trawl meshes was in 9.2.3 – the PSA step 2 – susceptibility, where a high risk score of 3 was correctly given. Perhaps the P1 assessor could add any relevant trawl mesh information to the appropriate section of the report and discuss the implications for bass stock status. Mesh size controls for towed gears in which bass is a target species are included in <strong>Council</strong> Regulation 850/1998, but most bass are taken as a by catch in gears for which mesh size controls depend on other target species. Text amended to clarify. The current harvest strategy has no mechanism to control fishing effort in the event of a need to reduce fishing effort to combat a fall in stock abundance resulting from excessive fishing effort or natural climatic changes. It would be wrong to assume that the bass stock will continue to expand its range and abundance in response to the favourable changes in sea temperature that have taken place in the recent past. Agreed, but the harvest strategy is designed to achieve management objectives in terms of yield per recruit and MSY, since growth overfishing rather than recruit overfishing has been identified as the principle cause of loss of production in sea bass stocks (in which a wide variability in recruitment is related to environmental factors rather than SSB). In this way the harvest strategy is responsive to the state of the stock (protecting year classes for up to 5 years before they recruit to the fishery and spawning population), and we consider that the SG 80 are met (since analysis and simulations have demonstrated the elements of the harvest strategy have been work together to achieving the management objectives: see Pawson et al., 2005; Pawson et al, 2007 and ICES 2010). Based on the above comments SG 1-80 is not met as the harvest strategy does not have explicit mechanisms to respond appropriately to a change in the state of the stock using effort control and/or mesh size increases. This score should be
2.3.2. Management Strategy. Quote ―The fact that the client fishes with rod and line and specifically and very selectively targets sea bass and cod can be considered an effective strategy to prevent the catch or mortality of ETP species (1-80).‖ Cod is not a target species - see 2.1.1. - it is a retained non-target species. Yes, sea bass is the target species in the MSC sense, for this assessment, but the fishery is directed at cod as well as bass. 2.5.2. Management Strategy. Quote from Section 4.5 of the report ―The artificial baits used in this fishery are generally made of lead which is known to be a toxic metal when it is accumulated in animal tissue in high concentrations. Sometimes a bait will get stuck on structures on the seafloor like rocks or wrecks and consequently lost. Although this can be considered a minor issue, the VBHL is currently looking into possibilities to replace the lead in the baits with another metal (steel).‖ Add this point to the recommendation given in 2.5.2 of the Scoring Table. OK, done 3.2.4. Research Plan. Quote ―Research conducted on sea bass in the Netherlands includes a tagging experiment in which IMARES is currently involved. Data on recreational catches have been collected by the national organisation of recreational fishermen. The results of this research are disseminated (through publication and ICES reports) and available to all parties (2-80).‖ Have the results been incorporated into the report and scoring table? The only example I can recollect seeing is the Westscheldt recruit series (Figure 4). All the results that are available and relevant to this assessment have been included in the report. Page 132 of 151
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Public comment draft report Marine
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