STECF noted that the EWG has addressed all the ToR regarding the requested fishing effort regime evaluations in 10 areas i.e. updated estimates of trends in fishing effort, landings and discards by species, CPUE and LPUE by fisheries and species, and partial fishing mortalities for...

This report presents the responses of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries to requests from the European Commission for advice on the implementation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy. Advice is given in relation to the following: Landing Obligation (demersal species for...

The Expert Working Group meeting of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries EWG-15-02 on Evaluation of management plans. Evaluation of the multi-annual plan for the North Sea demersal stocks was held from 16-20 March 2015 in Ispra, Italy. The report was reviewed and...

An ad hoc Expert Group on 'Monitoring the performance of the Common Fisheries Policy' composed of JRC experts was held on 10-11th February 2015 at JRC, Ispra, Italy. The ad hoc report was finalized and subsequently reviewed by the STECF by written procedure in March 2015.

Under the scope of the a4a Initiative, the JRC is promoting cooperative activities between fisheries scientists with the aim to test, disseminate and promote a4a methods. These small Research Projects (SRP) are focussed on (i) comparing the a4a statistical catch-at- age model with results from...

The Expert Working Group meetings of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries EWG-14-12 and EWG- 14-21 on Assessment of balance indicators for key fleet segments and review of national reports on Member States efforts to achieve balance between fleet capacity and fishing...

Climate change is expected to significantly affect the Arctic Ocean, primarily through warming and reduction of ice cover. Models suggest that fisheries in the Arctic will benefit from increased primary productivity, expansion of distribution ranges of mainly low to medium resilience boreal...

Ecosystem externalities arise when one use of an ecosystem affects its other uses through the production functions of the ecosystem.We use simulations from a size-spectrum ecosystem model to investigate the ecosystem externality created by fishing of multiple species. The model is based upon...

Risk of stock collapse is a genuine motivation for cooperative fisheries management. We analyse the effect of an endogenously determined risk of stock collapse on the incentives to cooperate in a Great Fish War model. We establish that equilibrium harvest strategies are non-linear in stock and...