Widespread discarding practices across European fishing activity resulted in the gradual introduction of an obligation to land catches (known as 'the landing obligation') as part of the 2013 common fisheries policy reform. The landing obligation requires catches of specific species be brought...

The study addresses three main specific objectives, each of which is presented as a separate chapter. These specific objectives are to i) improve knowledge on deep water sharks' biology, ecology and distribution; ii) explore possibilities for deriving abundance estimates and conservation status...

SGMOS-10-05 meeting was held on 27 September - 1 October 2009 in Edinburgh (UK), while the SGMOS-10-04 meeting, which contributed to the report of all 3 regions, the Baltic Sea (1), Annex IIA areas and the Celtic Sea (2) and Western Waters as well as the Deep Sea (3). This section of the report...