Certification Report MSC South Brittany Purse Seine Sardine 270710
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PUBLIC CERTIFICATION REPORT AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES & CRITERIA OF THE MSC FOR SUSTAINABLE FISHING SOUTHERN BRITTANY ’S PURSE SEINE SARDINE FISHERY ASSOCIATION DES BOLINCHEURS DE BRETAGNE Certification body : BUREAU VERITAS CERTIFICATION Le Guillaumet 60 avenue du Général de Gaulle 92046 PARIS LA DEFENSE Cedex Contact Team Assessment manager, Xavière LAGADEC Client : ASSOCIATION DES BOLINCHEURS DE BRETAGNE 17 impasse Emile Bernard 29000 Quimper FRANCE Contact: Chairman, Didier LE GLOANEC Reference documents and MSC standard: MSC Accreditation Manual Version 5, August 2005 MSC Principles and Criteria for Sustainable fishing, Nov 2002 Fisheries Certification Methodology (FCM) Version 6, Sept 2006 Fisheries assessment methodology (FAM) Version 1, July 2008 and Version 2, July 2009 MSC Chain of Custody Certification Methodology (CoC CM) Version 6, Nov 2005 MSC TAB Directives (All) Done in Puteaux, 27st July 2010 XL-2014234/MSC English Version, July 2010 Page 1 of 139 MSC Public certification report Purse- seine sardine Association des bolincheurs de Bretagne SUMMARY This report presents the result of the South-Brittany Purse-seine sardine Fishery assessment against Marine Steawardship Council Principles and Criteria. The client of this assessment is the “Association des Bolincheurs de Bretagne”. The fishery covered by the assessment is managed by the French Committees for fisheries and marine farms (CRPMEM) supervised by the Producers Organization. The target species, Common sardine ( Sardina pilchardus ) is fished in the 12 nautil mile area in the ICESarea VIIe and VIIIa in the south of the 48°30' parallel (northern boundary) an d north of the border between the Brittany and Pays de Loire regions (southern boundary). The vessels of the “Association des bolincheurs de Bretagne”, holder of a purse seine license are covered by the assessment. BUREAU VERITAS CERTIFICATION, as the assessor was in charge of the assessment process. This main fishery assessment took place in Brittany, with site visits and meetings in May/June 2010, and was undertaken by an assessment team comprising Xavière LAGADEC (team manager), Sophie DES CLERS (Expert on P3), Marie LESUEUR (Expert advisor), Didier GASCUEL (Expert on P1) and Olivier LE PAPE (Expert on P2). Following the redaction of the Client draft report and its review by the client (July -October 2009), two peers reviewers (Gilles CAUVIN and Richard SABATIE) commented the report (November 2009). The comments and recommendations of the peer reviewers were reviewed by the assessment team and the draft report modified accordingly, and issued on December 2009 for the public consultation. Under each Principles the assessment team assessed the status, results, management and information of the target species (P1); of the retained, bycatch and ETP species, the habitat and ecosystem impact (P2) ; and of the fishery management (P3). The three Principles have been scored above 80 (P1=80, P2=81, P3=82) and seven Performance Indicators get a score under 80. The performance indicators scored under 80 were the 1.2.1 (75), 1.2.2 (75), 2.1.2 (75), 2.2.3 (65), 2.4.3 (70), 3.2.1 (60) and 3.2.2 (65). The assessment team set therefore 4 conditions for continuing the certification, that the client is required to address within a period no longer than the term of the certification and determined by the certification body. The client the « Association des Bolincheurs de Bretagne », in collaboration with Regional Fishing Committee of Brittany notably, responded to the condition, by developing an action plan to meet the conditions in the specified time frame. Accordingly to this, the assessment team recommends that the South-Brittany Purse seine Sardine Fishery be certified against the MSC Principles and Criteria for sustainable fisheries. XL-2014234/MSC English Version, July 2010 Page 2 of 139 MSC Public certification report Purse- seine sardine Association des bolincheurs de Bretagne TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Purpose..................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Fishery certification unit............................................................................................................................. 4 2 Assessment context...................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Assessment team...................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Other assessments ................................................................................................................................... 6 2.3 Assessment methodology ......................................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Assessment process ................................................................................................................................. 7 3 Assessed fishery context ........................................................................................................................... 10 3.1 Presentation of the target species........................................................................................................... 10 3.2 Fishery history......................................................................................................................................... 13 3.3 Scientific stock assessment .................................................................................................................... 14 3.4 Fishery activity ........................................................................................................................................ 18 4 Fishery management system ..................................................................................................................... 24 4.1 Statutory context ..................................................................................................................................... 24 4.2 Management authority............................................................................................................................. 24 4.3 Fishery specific rules............................................................................................................................... 26 4.4 Inspection................................................................................................................................................ 28 5 Assessment results, fishery scoring ......................................................................................................... 29 5.1 Assessment tree ..................................................................................................................................... 29 5.2 Use of the RBF (Risk Based Framework) risk analysis method .............................................................. 31 1.2 Harmonisation process............................................................................................................................ 36 5.3 Assessment results ................................................................................................................................. 37 6 Certification scope ...................................................................................................................................... 39 6.1 Traceability within the fishery .................................................................................................................. 39 6.2 At-sea Processing ................................................................................................................................... 39 No processing take place on board, and no traceability risk has been identified............................................... 39 6.3 Landing and selling ................................................................................................................................. 39 6.4 Eligibility to enter Chain of Custody......................................................................................................... 40 777 Assessment conclusions and certification conditions............................................................................ 41 7.1 Determination.......................................................................................................................................... 41 7.2 Certification conditions ............................................................................................................................ 41 7.3 Recommendations .................................................................................................................................. 46 7.4 Action plan .............................................................................................................................................. 46 8 Peer review................................................................................................................................................... 47 9 Public consultation ..................................................................................................................................... 47 101010 Bibliography................................................................................................................................................