NOTIFICATION OF PROPOSED PEER REVIEWER TEAM

RAZOR FISHERY FROM RIA DE COFRADÍA DE PESCADORES SAN MARTIÑO DE – -SPAIN

13TH JUNE 2012

BUREAU VERITAS Certification is currently undertaking the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) fishery full assessment of the Razon Clam Fishery from Ria de Pontevedra (Galicia- Spain), for the client “COFRADÍA DE PESCADORES SAN MARTIÑO DE BUEU”.

To assist with this assessment, BUREAU VERITAS Certification proposes a potential peer reviewer team. The persons proposed as team members of this fishery assessment team have been proposed on the basis of their experience in the areas of stock assessment, ecosystem interactions and fishery management. Further details on team members are provided below, and CV of each member is available on request to BUREAU VERITAS certification at the address below.

All stakeholders (including the applicant fishery) are now given the opportunity to state any objections to the selection of a proposed member of the peer review panel, on the basis of any conflicts of interest, accompanied by a statement on the basis of any objection.

Comments on the suitability of any of the persons listed below should be forwarded, before 1700 BST on 13 July 2012, to:

Jacobo De Nóvoa, Project Coordinator Bureau Veritas Certification, Spain Avda. Finisterre 265 C 2ª Planta 15008 A Coruña. Galicia. Spain Tel: +34 600 99 02 78 [email protected]

1/2 BUREAU VERITAS Certification Le Guillaumet 60 avenue du Général de Gaulle 92046 PARIS LA DEFENSE Cedex POTENTIAL ASSESSMENT TEAM (in alphabetical order):

Dr Andrew Brand

Andy Brand holds a PhD and has worked for the University of Liverpool for 40 years on the academic staff of the Port Erin Marine Laboratory, Isle of Man, retiring in 2006 as Director of the Laboratory. During this time he developed large, well-funded, research programmes on the biology, ecology, and fisheries of bivalve molluscs, especially , and on the environmental impact of dredging.

He has had extensive fishery management and environmental assessment consultancy experience, including contracts with government departments and industry, and has been a member of ICES Working Groups on herring, scallops and ecosystem effects of fishing. In addition to work in the Irish Sea, he has advised on scallops and fisheries management in Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Chile, Ireland, France and the Philippines. He is now an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Liverpool and works as an independent shellfisheries consultant. He has recent experience as an Assessor and Independent Reviewer for Marine Stewardship Council certifications for scallop, and fisheries in the Irish Sea, Faeroes, Denmark and Canada.

Mr Bert Keus

Bert Keus is an independent consultant based in Leiden, the Netherlands. He holds degrees in biology and law, and has previously held the position of Head of the Environmental Division of the Dutch Fisheries Board (Productschap Vis), and research fellow with the fisheries division of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute of Holland (LEI-DLO).

Over the years 2003 and 2004 he managed fishing and processing companies in the Gambia handling fish from industrial and artisanal fisheries, and he maintains his contacts with the Gambian seafood industry. In addition, however he has a long association with shellfisheries, and is currently involved in the MSC assessment of the North Sea brown shrimp fishery, acting as technical advisor to this multi-stakeholder initiative, and sitting on the project’s management board. Through his work and several other MSC certifications he has become particularly familiar with the MSC certification process. Between the years 1998 and 2003 he was a member of the European Sustainable Uses Specialist Group (ESUSG), Fisheries Working Group of the IUCN.

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