4.1.3.1.Landed species
This description is based upon the he list of deep-water species from Annex I of EU regulation 2347/2002 of the council of 16 December 2002. The main species in the landings of the French fleet have been roundnose grenadier, black scabbardfish, blue ling, orange roughy, greater forkbeard, siki sharks (leafscale gulper shark and Portuguese dogfish) and black dogfish. Since the onset of the fishery, siki sharks were reported combined, only from 2002 an increasing proportion of the landing have been reported as either leafscale gulper shark or Portuguese dogfish. Black dogfish was mainly discarded in the first years of the fishery and began to be landed in the late 1990s.
A number of species from Annex I of the regulation have never been landed and some other were landed as minor quantities only (Table 4.1.3.1). Minor quantities may not be reliable as a few coding errors in landings of important species may appear as small amount of another species. For example, the FAO code for leafscale gulper shark is GUQ, if it happesn to be mistyped as GUP this will appear as Gulper shark (Centrophorus granulosus).
The total landings reported landings of all species quoted as "minor landings" in table 4.1.3.1. were 42 tonnes from 2003 to n2008.
Table 4.1.3.1. Species from Annex I of EU regulation 2347/2002 of the council of 16 December 2002 and status in French landings.
Scientific name
|
Common name
|
Status in French landings
|
Aphanopus carbo
|
Black scabbardfish
|
Major species
|
Apristurus spp.
|
Iceland catshark
|
Never landed (1)
|
Argentina silus
|
Greater silver smelt
|
Small landings
|
Beryx spp.
|
Alfonsinos
|
Small landing (ca 30 tonnes per year), mainly from ICES subarea VIII (i.e. not the deep-water fishery)
|
Centrophorus granulosus
|
Gulper shark
|
Minor landings
|
Centrophorus squamosus
|
Leafscale gulper shark
|
Major species (before TAC closure)
|
Centroscyllium fabricii
|
Black dogfish
|
Significant landing in the 2000s
|
Centroscymnus coelolepis
|
Portuguese dogfish
|
Major species (before TAC closure)
|
Coryphaenoides rupestris
|
Roundnose grenadier
|
Major species
|
Dalatias licha
|
Kitefin shark
|
Minor landings
|
Deania calcea
|
Birdbeak dogfish
|
No landings (2)
|
Etmopterus princeps
|
Greater lanternshark
|
No landings (1)
|
Etmopterus spinax
|
Velvet belly
|
No landings (1)
|
Galeus melastomus
|
Blackmouth dogfish
|
Minor landings
|
Galeus murinus
|
Mouse catshark
|
Minor landings
|
Hoplostethus atlanticus
|
Orange roughy
|
Major species (before TAC closure)
|
Molva dypterygia
|
Blue ling
|
Major species
|
Phycis blennoides
|
Forkbeards
|
Major species
|
Centroscymnus crepidater
|
Longnose velvet dogfish
|
no landings
|
Scymnodon ringens
|
Knifetooth dogfish
|
Minor landings
|
Hexanchus griseus
|
Six-gilled shark
|
Minor landing
|
Chlamydoselachus anguineus
|
Frilled shark
|
No landings (3)
|
Oxynotus paradoxus
|
Sailfin roughshark (Sharpback shark)
|
No landings (3)
|
Somniosus microcephalus
|
Greenland shark
|
No landings (3)
|
(1) not suitable for the market owing to small size
(2) Birdbeak dogfish is caught in significant quantities, but it was never marketed mainly because it cannot be skinned easily
(3) not marketable on the domestic fresh fish market
Share with your friends: |