Management procedures at the fisheries level

6.3.3. How could they be improved?

When management was first introduce in 2003, these objectives were difficult to defined, it was only clear that on-going fisheries were strongly overexploiting the resources. There is now a nedd to define target and have them discussed witht eh industry. Targets are needed for catch and effort levels but also for closed areas. Some aspects need to be revised. For examples to closure of orange roughy fishing to the west of the Porcupine Bank is now an overlap with the zero TACfor that species. It is no longer useful for the stock management. Nevetheless this closure applies to an area were VMEs are abundant, so that it provides protections to some VMEs. As it was designed for the management of the orange roughy stock it may not be optimal of VMEs protection. In particular the main VMEs tends to be distributed at shallower depth than the main fishing grounds for orange roughy. Thefore most probably an improvement mangement could be achived by defining an area to protect VMEs on the slope of the Porcupine Bank. The best option to do this might be first to freeze the current footprint of all fisheries operating below some depth (e.g. 400 m). This footprint might be defined at a very fine scale, particularly in this area where there are clearly some large scattered carbonates mounds covered with dense reefs of live corals over sidementary bottom where a number of bottom fisheries have been fishing for gadoids, megrim monkfish and diverse species. Work with stakeholder is required to define which rules would allow to ascertain that fisheries that have not been impacting VMEs in that area will keep going with the same tactics and technics.

6.3.4. Should other types of management procedures be considered? Is so please describe and identify expected benefits.

Should other types of management procedures be considered? Is so please describe and identify expected benefits.

Some management procedures have not been considered at all, e.g. Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). In the current CFP, it is the responsibility of members state to decide how national quotas are distributed between Proffesional Organisation (POs). Nevertheless, the pro and cons of ITQs in deep-water fisheries need to be considered.

6.4. Management procedures at the ecosystem level

6.4 Management procedures at the ecosystem level

6.4.1. Ecosystem management procedures currently in place.

6.4.1 Please describe the management procedures currently in place.

At the moment there is little management procedure at ecosytem levels in the context of the CFP or under regulation by RFMOs such as NEAFC. There are some interactions between management procedure taken at population, stock or fishery level and the ecosystem level. For example, the zero TACs for deep-water sharks and orange roughy and the areas closed to orange roughy fishing provide some protection of ecosystem properties such as diversity. As fishing for orange roughy was ban on most of the Porcupine slope, the fishing pressure on the fish community and on benthic ecosystems in this area have been released. Similarly, the reduction of sharks TACs down to 0 in 2010, might have limited sharks catches (although a signifcant bycatch might remain) so that the diversity of the fish community and the proportion of large fish in the community is to somee xtedn subject of regulation. More obviously the protection of VMEs induce protection of the ecosystem service provide by VMEs.

Nevertheless, there is no ecosystem manegement procedure at the moment, this is being introduced with the implemenation of the MFSD.

6.4.2. Strengths and weakness of these procedures

6.4.2 What has been the strengths and weakness of these procedures?

Not relevant

6.4.3. Possible improvements

6.4.3 How could they be improved?

Year have to go before one can judge the achievements of the MSFD and be able to suggest improvements.

6.4.4. Possible other types of management procedures

6.4.4 Should other types of management procedures be considered? Is so please describe and identify expected benefits.

The MSFD framework provides an overarching framework for the management of all human uses of marine ecosystem. It is a much more advanced framework that anything previously developed. Therefore, the priority for the next 10 years seems to properly implement the MSFD. In the case of deep-water ecosytem, this implies doing and initial assessment of ecosytems in a data poor context, then defining programmes of monitoring, ecological targets and programme of measures (in other words management programmes) to meant the ecological target in 2021. Because the dynamics of deep-water ecosytem is often slow, properties of the ecosystem that are currently far from the Good Environmental Status targeted by nthe MSFD might be slow to recover and this the time frame required for recovery should as much as possible be assessed together with the initial assessment of the ecosystems.

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