SGS Product & Process Certification - Marine Stewardship Council

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Map: Southern North Sea, ‗A‘ = Neeltje Jans The UoC fishing fleet consists of 19 under-10 m boats propelled by high-powered inboard or outboard motors (5 vessels have an engine power of more than 200 KW). The fishery takes place up to 70 miles from the home port, and uses high speed boats that normally make oneday trips and fish mainly during daytime. The fishery is carried out between March and December from an anchored boat near shipwrecks and other obstacles on the sea floor that attract concentrations of bass and cod, and which are located using GPS. The boats normally carry two or three crew, occasionally four, each using a single rod and line fishing with artificial bait (lures and pirks), but occasionally with natural baits, such as ragworm (Nereis spp), lugworm (Arenicola spp) or razor shells (Ensis spp). From VIRIS sales data, the client estimates that the members of the VBHL have been catching around 60 t of sea bass each year, as shown below. 2006 2007 2008 2009 Sea bass 33.4 56.4 62.3 56.7 Cod 6.1 8.5 13.6 16.1 2. TARGET STOCK STATUS AND HARVEST CONTROLS (P1) Page 19 of 151
3.1 Analytical assessments The first analytical examination of any sea bass fishery was a yield per recruit (Y/R) analysis carried out using catch-at-age data in three métiers (gear groups, within which the species composition in the catch is relatively consistent) - trawls, nets and lines (including recreational rod-and-line) - in the UK sea bass fishery in ICES Division VIId (Pawson et al., 2005). The results showed that increasing length at first capture above 36 cm (the current EU minimum landing size, MLS) would produce small gains in Y/R up to about 46 cm, above which potential yields increase only if the level of fishing mortality (F) is also increased. In 2003, the ICES Bass Study Group (SGBASS) used the SURBA program with data on UK and French bass catch-at-age and fishing effort by métier groups (trawls, nets and lines) for four stock areas (Divisions IVb,c; VIId; VIIe,h; VIIa,f,g) for which sufficient biological sampling information was available over the period 1985–2002 (ICES, 2004). A separable model was used to provide independent assessments of the status of each stock, which indicated trends in spawning-stock biomass (SSB) within stocks, and similar recruitment patterns between stocks. Estimates of F using SURBA were considered to be less informative, largely because of a lack of independence between the selectivities estimated for the fishery and the indices of catch per unit of effort (cpue: actually based on landings, but discards of sea bass are usually negligible) used. No biological reference points were proposed at this time. No update on these assessments has been carried out using international data, but Cefas developed a multi-métier, fully statistical, separable model using UK fishing effort and catch numbers-at-age data for three métiers (i.e. trawls, nets, and lines) in four areas (ICES Divisions IVb,c; VIId; VIIe; VIIa,f,g;) over the period 1985-2004 (Pawson et al. 2007b). Although there is little information on bass discards, they are thought to be either insignificant (in nets) or to survive on being returned to the water (from lines). Catch and fishing effort data Prior to implementation of the Buyers and Sellers regulation in 2005 (MMO, 2010), the official statistics grossly underestimated the quantities of bass landed in England and Wales (Pawson et al., 2007b). A considerable proportion of the UK bass catch taken by commercial small-boat fisheries and by the recreational sector is sold directly to restaurants or small merchants, and the official statistics may record as little as 20% of actual landings. The best estimates of annual catch and effort have been obtained by integrating official statistics, derived from landings declarations and local market sales at the 60-70 major ports, with estimates of total landings by inshore fishing vessels, including charter and casual angling boats, obtained from a voluntary logbook scheme administered by CEFAS for the England and Wales
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