SGS Product & Process Certification - Marine Stewardship Council

controls) that seek to maximise Y/R, but the HCRs that are in place
do not ensure that the exploitation rate is reduced as limit
reference points are approached (with respect to MSY, since
recruitment is not stock-driven).
Condition Condition 1. Client should liaise with management and research
bodies to determine what part they can play in the development of
a harvest control rule that better ensures that the exploitation rate
by fishing metiers taking sea bass in the North Sea, including
trawling and gill netting, is reduced as limit reference points are
approached.
Client Action
Plan
Condition 2
Fishery specific
management
system
Timescale: By first surveillance audit: written evidence is required
of appropriate action by the client towards management authorities
and research institutes, and of their response.
Liaise with fisheries management and research bodies to develop
appropriate harvest control rules (related to MSY) within the
fisheries for North Sea bass
3.2.1 Fishery specific objectives
P3 The fishery has clear, specific objectives designed to achieve the
outcomes expressed by MSC‘s Principles 1 and 2.
SG 60 Objectives, which are broadly consistent with achieving the
outcomes expressed by MSC‘s Principles 1 and 2, are implicit
within the fishery‘s management system.
SG 80 Short and long term objectives, which are consistent with achieving
the outcomes expressed by MSC‘s Principles 1 and 2, are explicit
within the fishery‘s management
system.
SG 100 Well defined and measurable short and long term objectives, which
are demonstrably consistent with achieving the outcomes
expressed by MSC‘s Principles 1 and 2, are explicit within the
fishery‘s management
system.
Scoring 70
Rationale Although there are clearly defined management objectives for
Dutch North Sea fisheries in general, fishery-specific management
objectives are not explicitly formulated for the rod and line sea
bass fishery. Specific management objectives for the sea bass
fishery (as a whole, preferably) should be developed within the
context of regulations as set out by the management authorities.
This would preferably be done by the management authorities and
with input from scientists.
Condition Condition 2. The client should liaise with the relevant authorities
and scientists (IMARES and ICES) and encourage them to develop
specific management objectives for this fishery, which would
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