Transcript Cleaverbank - North Sea Advisory Council

FIMPAS WK 3
Conclusions
FIMPAS WK 3 - Den Helder, NL, 26th Jan 2011
General Messages
Monitoring - Funding
Adaptive management (no time limits)
New gear technology
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Cleaver Bank
Habitats Directive
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Facts
→ Conservation objectives: Maintain surface area & improve quality (Jak et al. 2009)
CONSERVATION OBJECTIVES
Cleaver Bank
H1170 Open-sea reefs
Beam trawl
Otter trawl
Seine nets
Gillnets
Midwater trawl
High
High
Low
Low
Not Relevant
Proposal
(Monday morning)
Botney Cut
H1170
Low impact
fishing
Closed
• 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 20062008 fishing effort level.
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Proposal
For the habitat type
conservation objective
(H1170)
Botney Cut
H1170
Otter trawl
fishing
Ban beam and otter trawls
• Ban beam and otter trawls
• Allow otter trawls within the Botney Cut
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Cleaver Bank proposal (25 January)
Cleaver Bank procedure
(Alternative proposal)
Workshop 3
Submission of
proposal
(1 March)
Sharepoint
Decision
Steering group
1 April
Frisian Front
Birds Directive
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Conservation Objectives
Bird species
Common guillemot
Great skua
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Regularly present in the period *
July – November (20,000 birds)
August – September (180 birds)
(Assumed) June – July (19,000 pairs)
Late October-November (80 birds)
* Conserv. Obj:- MAINTAIN
Proposal
Monday Morning
Frisian Front
Limited effort
Gillnets banned seasonally
Enhanced monitoring
• 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
Proposal
For the sea bird conservation
objective
Frisian Front
Limited effort
Gillnets banned seasonally
Enhanced monitoring
•Ban gillnetting from 1st June to 30th November
Harbour Porpoise
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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)
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
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)
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Dogger Bank
Habitats Directive
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Outcome of WK2
→ Conservation objectives: Maintain surface area & improve quality (Jak et al. 2009)
CONSERVATION
OBJECTIVES
Dogger Bank
H1110_C Sandbanks
Beam trawl
Otter trawl
Seine
nets
High with
Medium with
Low
disagreement disagreement
Midwater
trawl and
Gillnets other
pelagic
gear
Low
Not
Relevant
Disagreements among industry vs. scientists: impacts of beam trawls compared to
natural impact e.g. from storms
Proposed measures
Monday Morning
Preferred fishing
Low impact
fishing
Closed
•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.
Proposal
Controlled fishing
Gear bans
•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 Bank
International Coherence
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Key Principles for evaluating
management proposals
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EC guidance: proportional, enforceable
Direct link to conservation objectives
Spatial variability: zoning
Temporal variability: seasonality
Control/Enforcement
International coherence
Effort displacement
Promote low impact fishing
One principle should not be upheld at the expense
of another
Summary:
Changes in proposals vs principles
1. Freeze of effort
2. Mammals
3. Dogger Bank
4. Cleaver Bank
5. Frisian Front
1. Enforceability: scale
2. Enforceability: scale
3. Internationale
coherence, zoning
4. Proportionality,
enforceability, link to
conservation objective
5. Enforceability,
CFP policy
January
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
fall
Dogger Bank states
workshop
Consult flag
states involved
September
FIMPAS 4 incl.
stakeholders RAC
Consult RAC
Invite zoning
proposals