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FIMPAS WK 3 Conclusions
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
General Messages
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
Monitoring - Funding Adaptive management (no time limits)
New gear technology
Cleaver BankHabitats Directive
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
CONSERVATION OBJECTIVES Beam trawl Otter trawl Seine nets Gillnets Midwater trawl
Cleaver Bank
H1170 Open-sea reefsHigh High Low Low Not Relevant
Facts
→ Conservation objectives: Maintain surface area & improve quality (Jak et al. 2009)
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Proposal(Monday morning)
• Banning of beam and otter trawls in areas with H1170 (reefs) and allowing low impact fishing within the Botney Cut.
• Maintenance of seining and gillnetting effort at the 2006-2008 fishing effort level.
ClosedLow impact
fishing
H1170Botney Cut
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Proposal For the habitat type conservation objective (H1170)
• Ban beam and otter trawls
• Allow otter trawls within the Botney Cut
Ban beam and otter trawlsOtter trawl
fishing
H1170Botney Cut
Cleaver Bank proposal (25 January)
Cleaver Bank procedure(Alternative proposal)
Workshop 3
Submission of proposal (1 March)
Sharepoint
Decision Steering group
1 April
Frisian FrontBirds Directive
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
Conservation Objectives
Bird species Regularly present in the period *Common guillemot July – November (20,000 birds)Great skua August – September (180 birds)Lesser black-backed gull (Assumed) June – July (19,000 pairs)Great black-backed gull Late October-November (80 birds)
* Conserv. Obj:- MAINTAIN
ProposalMonday Morning
• Allow gillnetting in seasons when the birds do not occur (December-May), i.e. ban gillnetting in June – November (noting that p.5 of Fisheries Measures report says July-Aug (after Jak et al 2009) • All vessels (including below 15 m-length-overall vessels) need to register VMS data
• Freeze gillnetting, trawling and seining effort at 2006-08 level
Limited effort
Gillnets banned seasonally
Frisian Front
Enhanced monitoring
ProposalFor the sea bird conservation objective
•Ban gillnetting from 1st June to 30th November
Limited effort
Gillnets banned seasonally
Frisian Front
Enhanced monitoring
Harbour Porpoise
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
CONSERVATION OBJECTIVES Beam trawl Otter trawl Seine nets Gillnets Midwater trawl
Harbour porpoise Low Low Low Medium Low
Harbour seal Low Low Low Low Low
Grey seal Low Low Low Low Low
Facts
→ Conservation objective set for non-qualifying HD annex species
→ Conservation objective at site level (Dogger Bank, Cleaver Bank): Maintain quality of living area (Jak et al. 2009)
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Proposal Monday Morning
• Two-tier approach:• Harbour porpoise species protection plan at population
scale, taking other ICES advice into account (e.g. recent advice on EC 812/2004)
• At site level: Conservation objective delivered through maintaining gillnetting effort at current levels (2006-2008)
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Proposal
• Develop (during 2011) and implement Harbour porpoise species protection plan at population scale (North Sea)
• Deliver conservation objective through capping gillnetting effort at current levels (2006-2008)
Dogger BankHabitats Directive
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
Outcome of WK2
→ Conservation objectives: Maintain surface area & improve quality (Jak et al. 2009)
CONSERVATION OBJECTIVES
Beam trawl Otter trawlSeine nets
Gillnets
Midwater trawl and other pelagic gear
Dogger Bank
H1110_C Sandbanks
High with disagreement
Medium with disagreement
Low LowNot Relevant
Disagreements among industry vs. scientists: impacts of beam trawls compared to natural impact e.g. from storms
Low impact fishing Closed
Preferred fishing
Proposed measures Monday Morning
•Beam and otter trawls should be banned
•Zoning approach allowing ‘environmental friendly trawling’
•The no-trawling zone should include representatives of all habitat communities.
•Gillnet and demersal seine fisheries should be maintained at the 2006-2008 level.
Gear bans
Controlled fishing
Proposal
•Ban beam, otter trawls, demersal seines in specific areas; in other areas controlled fishing.
•The areas will include various benthic communities on the Dogger Bank.
•Note: This is done with the purposes of conservation, understanding recovery and human impact.
Proposed measures (experiment to improve knowledge)
•Detailed examination (full Dogger Bank) of currently available knowledge
•Large scale experiment (areas with controlled fishing compared to areas with no fishing)
Dogger BankInternational Coherence
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
Key Principles for evaluating management proposals
1. EC guidance: proportional, enforceable2. Direct link to conservation objectives3. Spatial variability: zoning4. Temporal variability: seasonality5. Control/Enforcement6. International coherence7. Effort displacement8. Promote low impact fishing9. One principle should not be upheld at the expense
of another
Summary:Changes in proposals vs principles
1. Freeze of effort2. Mammals3. Dogger Bank
4. Cleaver Bank
5. Frisian Front
1. Enforceability: scale2. Enforceability: scale3. Internationale
coherence, zoning4. Proportionality,
enforceability, link to conservation objective
5. Enforceability, CFP policy
FIMPAS 3
TOR for continued work by ICES +
Preparatory steps * Inventory natural values /
benthic communities* Integration conservation objectives at operational
level* analysis / evaluation
different proposals
Consult RAC
Invite zoning proposals
Dogger Bank states workshop
Consult flag states involved
FIMPAS 4 incl. stakeholders RAC
September
January
fall
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