Three Pelagic Fisheries Management Plans - Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA)

Footnotes

1 The relevant UK fisheries authorities for the pelagic FMPs are the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government (two of the plans), the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland

2 Annex A of the JFS was amended in December 2024.

3 Should be noted that the ICES category is primarily a classification of the evidence available for a stock and is not a rating of how healthy the stock is.

4 ICES 2026 - Greater silver smelt (Argentina silus) in subareas 1, 2, and 4 and in Division 3.a (Northeast Arctic, North Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat)

5 Fisheries Act 2020

6 consumption by one user reduces the amount available to others

7 difficult to exclude people from using the resource

8 costs or benefits of economic activity to third parties, such as wider society, that are not reflected in market prices

9 Joint Fisheries Statement

10 Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024 - gov.scot: Table 47.

11 Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 – Definitions of small and micro business

12 UK business: activity, size and location - Office for National Statistics: 2025, table 4

13 Environmental variability in the North Atlantic and Iberian waters and its influence on horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) and albacore (Thunnus alalunga) dynamics

14 AZTI, 2023: Species acclimatization pathways: Latitudinal shifts and timing adjustments to track ocean warming

15 The genomic basis and environmental correlates of local adaptation in the Atlantic horse mackerel