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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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