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Wild Wrasse Fishery – Summary up to and including 2024

An update to the 2021 and 2022 data, and an overview of the available data for 2023/24.

Annex 1

Table A.1. The total monthly reported wrasse landings (tonnes) for each year from 2017-2024. From 2021 onwards landings are from derogated vessels reporting landings.
Month	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
1	0.02	0.00	0.23	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.25
4	0.01	0.00	0.03	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.14
5	1.67	0.24	1.77	1.35	0.79	2.75	4.57	4.30	17.45
6	6.44	5.15	4.46	8.00	9.25	12.76	14.92	10.47	71.45
7	7.66	9.25	9.07	8.92	15.30	18.24	15.15	18.39	101.97
8	9.13	8.78	11.22	14.86	17.79	20.05	24.47	18.34	124.63
9	7.64	8.58	15.39	12.40	17.09	15.99	20.27	14.62	111.97
10	5.86	5.75	8.68	11.24	6.66	7.34	11.34	3.30	60.15
11	1.57	0.76	0.70	1.57	0.37	1.98	1.27	0.61	8.82
12	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03
Total	40.00	38.52	51.54	58.45	67.24	79.10	91.99	70.03	496.86

Table A.2. The total annual landings (tonnes) reported in each ICES Rectangle for years 2021-2024 from derogated vessels. Where there were less than three vessels reporting landings a * has been used to indicate that there were landings reported for this square.
ICES Rectangle	2021	2022	2023	2024
40E4	2.00	0.84	0.74	0
40E5	0	0	1.283	0
40E8	0	*	0	0
41E3	*	0	0	0
41E4	7.04	9.78	13	*
41E5	2.09	0	0	0
42E2	0	0.78	0	0
42E3	0.70	1.85	5.2	5.11
42E4	18.27	19.82	25.36	11.46
43E2	3.8	5.23	7.44	4.25
43E3	4.25	7.54	7.26	7.29
43E4	0.95	1.5	1.81	4.17
43E5	1.36	0	0	1.03
44E2	6.4	7.3	4.48	5.02
44E3	5.29	4.54	2.16	3.9
44E4	1.24	0.35	1.81	2.16
44E5	0.12	0	0	0
44E6	1.59	0.35	0.84	0.51
45E3	1.69	0.99	1.66	2.79
45E4	1.1	0.67	1.63	0.53
46E4	0	*	*	0
46E6	4.32	4.7	0.82	1.87
46E7	*	0.53	2.66	0.89
47E3	0	*	0	0
47E6	0.64	0.66	0.85	0.7
47E7	4.33	6.52	4.56	5.65
48E8	0	0	*	0
48E9	0	0	0	*
49E8	0	0.2	3.15	5.53
49E9	0	4.61	5.23	6.05

Table A.3. The total annual landings (tonnes) for each wrasse species from 2017-2024 for reporting vessels, from 2021 onwards this is for reporting derogated vessels.
Species	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
Ballan	29.99	25.61	30.04	38.49	48.48	63.82	68.46	56.53	361.42
Corkwing	2.51	4.17	9.14	8.06	10.34	9.08	16.63	8.62	68.54
Cuckoo	1.57	2.16	5.36	4.69	1.66	1.87	1.92	1.23	20.46
Goldsinny	5.55	5.33	5.86	5.66	5.13	3.39	3.65	2.69	37.27
Rock Cook	0.32	1.15	1.08	1.48	1.59	0.94	1.13	0.94	8.63
Wrasse, hogfish	0.06	0.10	0.06	0.08	0.05	0.00	0.20	0.01	0.55
Total	40.00	38.52	51.54	58.45	67.24	79.10	91.99	70.03	496.87

Table A.4. The number of wrasse reported as being undersized, oversized or of permitted size returned or retained, reported by fishers in the first 20 pots lifted during 2023.
Species	Total Number	Retained permitted size	Returned undersize	Returned oversize	Returned permitted size
Ballan	16,197	10,900	2,276	2,266	755
Corkwing	9,099	2,764	2,304	473	3,558
Cuckoo	1,579	346	409	140	684
Goldsinny	9,985	2,866	3,727	185	3,207
Rock Cook	5,870	1,271	3,393	26	1,180
Total	42,730	18,147	12,109	3,090	9,384

Table A.5. The number of wrasse reported as being undersized, oversized or of permitted size returned or retained, reported by fishers in the first 20 pots lifted during 2024.
Species	Total Number	Retained permitted size	Returned undersize	Returned oversize	Returned permitted size
Ballan	11,985	8,773	1,536	1,222	454
Corkwing	6,280	2,223	1,369	257	2,431
Cuckoo	1,037	146	203	108	580
Goldsinny	8,274	2,161	2,663	127	3,323
Rock Cook	4,743	991	2,516	25	1,211
Total	32,319	14,294	8,287	1,739	7,999

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