Fishing - multispecies management approaches: evaluation
This report explores the potential of four proposed multispecies management approaches to address the issue of "choke species" in North Sea demersal fisheries using a multi-stock, fleet-based model.
Abbreviations
AAP: Aarts and Poos stock assessment model
CFP: Common Fisheries Policy
FLBEIA: Bio-Economic Impact Assessment using FLR
FLR: Fisheries Library in R
FU: Functional Unit
HCR: Harvest Control Rule
IBPMIXFISH: Inter-Benchmark Process to evaluate a change in operating model for mixed fishery considerations in the Celtic Sea and North Sea
ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
MSY: Maximum Sustainable Yield
SAM: State-space Assessment Model
MD-SEDD: Science, Evidence, Digital and Data portfolio of the Marine Directorate
SFA: Shetland Fishermen’s Association
SRR: Stock-Recruitment Relationship
SSB: Spawning Stock Biomass
STECF: Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries
TAC: Total Allowable Catch
TSA: Time Series Analysis model
WGMIXFISH-ADVICE: ICES Working Group on Mixed Fisheries Advice
WGNSSK: ICES Working Group for the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat
Contact
Email: harriet.cole@scot.gov