Overview of the international fishing activities on protected areas in the North Sea : Fishing activities of the Dutch, Danish, German, Belgian, Swedish and French fleet for the period 2015-2019

Abstract

Dit rapport geeft een overzicht van de sociaal-economische data van de gebieden waarvoor het ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit een Joint Recommendation moet leveren onder Artikel 11 van Verordening (EU) nr. 1380/2013. Dit wordt niet alleen voor de Nederlandse vloot gedaan, maar ook voor de Belgische, Franse, Duitse, Zweedse en Deense. This report provides an overview of socio-economic data of areas for which the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality has to provide a Joint Recommendation for fisheries management under Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No. 1380/2013. This not only for the Dutch fleet, but also for the Belgian, French, German, Swedish and Danish fleet.

Overview of the international fishing activities on protected areas in the Dutch part of the North Sea : fishing activities of the Dutch, Danish, German, Belgian, Swedish and French fleet for the period 2014-2021

“…This report is a follow-up on the previous analysis of fishing activity performed by Wageningen Economic Research (e.g. Jongbloed et al 2019, Roskam et al 2021. Differences with previous call include…”

“…• New definition of the Borkum Reef Grounds coordinates compared to Roskam et al (2021) • New definition of the Brown Ridge coordinates Compared to the scenarios in Jongbloed et al (2019) • Split of the Dogger Bank in two areas: the Natura 2000 site and a Southern strip under MSFD, while those were one area in Roskam et al (2021) • Explicit inclusion of the VIBEG management zones of the North Sea Coastal Zone, which were only estimated as shares of larger areas in Roskam et al (2021).…”

“…Compared to previous calls, the pre-processing steps have been modified. Given that most countries now have their own combined datasets of logbook and VMS data, it is believed that the national labs each have the best knowledge to perform the following steps as described in Hintzen et al (2013) and used in Hamon et al (2013), Oostenbrugge et al (2013), Oostenbrugge and Hamon et al (2014), , Jongbloed et al (2019), Hamon et al (2020) and Roskam et al (2021):…”

“…The gear used is approximated by the main 'Fishing_technique' used by the vessels per fleet segment. The details of the calculations are the same as in Roskam et al (2021) and available in Appendix A.2.…”

“…The same method was used in this report as in Roskam et al (2021). For the reader's convenience, this method is also described in Appendix A.3.…”