A parable of compliance issues and their link to EBFM outcomes

Pope, John G.; Weber, Charlotte Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2018.10.012

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“…Another explanation would of course be that the LO rules actually incentive shermen to discard more (Pope and Weber, 2019). Even ICES states in a current report on Baltic Sea sheries that "in 2015, a landing obligation was introduced in the Baltic Sea and therefore the observer trips (…) changed from observing a mandatory behaviour towards observing an illegal act.…”

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Caught on camera: Widespread direct evidence of illegal discards in coastal waters of the Western Baltic Sea

Schubert

Karez

Reusch

2023

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Most fish stocks in the European Union (EU) are still being overfished. One recent measure of the EU common fisheries policy to curb overfishing is the introduction of landing obligations that are meant to reduce discards, but the success of landing obligations is controversial, as discards still take place. In the German Western Baltic Sea , discards are currently estimated using ship observer data, but vessels <12 m are not sufficiently controlled. We here use an independent method and document widespread discard of undersized cod and flatfish in late summer 2018 using video transects. Discards along the coastline of the south-western Baltic Sea amount to an extrapolated 14.0 t of cod and 1.0 t of flatfish decomposing on the sea floor in 1-13 m depth in a subarea of Mecklenburg Bight that covers only 2.3% of ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ) subdivisions 22-24, the habitat of Western Baltic cod. Compared to a similar video-mapping seven years earlier (in 2011), the amount of discard increased markedly, suggesting that the implementation of landing obligations in the time between the two mappings for under-sized catches has not resulted in a decrease but an increase of discards. We suggest that higher observed discards of cod in 2018 are also due to a high percentage of cod coming from the 2016-cohort of the Western Baltic cod stock which are just undersized but nevertheless caught by most passive net gear. Our data complement estimates based on ship observer data, while providing the first direct evidence of the fate of discards in the benthic marine habitat.

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Caught on camera: Widespread direct evidence of illegal discards in coastal waters of the Western Baltic Sea

Schubert

Karez

Reusch

2023

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“…Windows of opportunity (e.g. on the benefits of an EAFM) may offer possibilities for transitions toward an EBFM, and the importance of individuals as catalyst, can-do committed personalities, has also been pointed out as a key aspect (Mackinson and Middleton, 2018;Rudd et al, 2018) In terms of concrete actions for (scientific) advisory bodies providing advice, building the capacity to manage and reach an in-depth understanding of issues that cut across the natural and social sciences take sustained time, effort, and investment (Rudd et al, 2018;Link et al, 2019;Pope and Weber, 2019). Providing resources to create this capacity can be viewed as an investment to increase understanding of social, economic and political aspects which interrelate with ecosystemic components.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Institutional impediments to integrate EAFM advice into management have been identified as well (e.g. Trenkel 2018;Mackinson and Middleton, 2018;Pope et al, 2019;Ohms and Raakjaer, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%