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Rcm Ldf) 2015 EU DATA COLLECTION FRAMEWORK (DCF), REG. 199/2008, 665/2008 and DECISION 2010/93/EU Report of the Regional Co-ordination Meeting for the Long Distance Fisheries (RCM LDF) 2015 Thünen Institute [TI]), Hamburg, Germany 21/04/2015 – 22/04/2015 Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz Cádiz, Spain 9/06/2015 - 12/06/2015 RCM LDF 2015 Report - Final Table of Contents 1. Executive summary.......................................................................... 3 2. Introduction .................................................................................... 5 2.1 General ................................................................................... 5 2.2 Background & legal requirements................................................ 5 2.3 Terms of Reference ................................................................... 5 2.4 Participants and Agendas ........................................................... 7 2.5 Structure of the report .............................................................. 7 2.6 Data call .................................................................................. 8 3. Review of EU Long Distance Fisheries activities ................................... 9 3.1 CECAF area .............................................................................. 9 3.2 SPRFMO area ......................................................................... 16 4. Review progress in regional co-ordination since the 2014 RCM ............. 17 4.1 Follow-up of the 11th Liaison Meeting ......................................... 17 4.2 Feedback from end users, including NC meeting ......................... 17 4.3 Sampling coordination in the area of competence of the RCM LDF . 17 5. Data Quality issues ......................................................................... 18 5.1 Progress on quality, control, validation etc. ................................ 18 5.2 Developing statistical sound harmonised sampling programmes ... 18 6. New CFP and development of of EU-MAP ........................................... 21 6.1 Impact of the landing obligation ............................................... 21 6.2 Ranking of métier to find out whether any of the NPs need to be modified for 2015. .................................................................. 22 7. Surveys, studies and pilot projects .................................................... 23 8. Any other business ......................................................................... 25 8.1 Recommendations .................................................................. 25 8.2 Time and venue of the RCM LDF meeting in 2016 ....................... 25 8.3 Chairmanship ......................................................................... 25 9. Glossary ........................................................................................ 27 10. Annexes ........................................................................................ 28 10.1 Annex 1 – Agenda of the 1st meeting (April 2015; Hamburg, Germany) .............................................................................. 28 10.2 Annex 2 – Agenda of the 2nd meeting (June 2015; Cadiz, Spain) . 29 10.3 Annex 3 - Minutes with the outcomes of the 1st RCM LDF meeting (April 21-22, 2015, Hamburg, Germany) ................................... 31 10.4 Annex 4 – Amendments to the joint sampling program for small pelagics fishery in the CECAF area ............................................ 35 10.5 Annex 5 – Multilateral Agreement on joint sampling programme of the fishery activities in the SPRFMO ....................................... 37 Annex 2: “Observer Manual for biological data collection in SPRFMO waters”. ................................................................................. 38 10.6 Annex 6 – Landings by species reported by MS ........................... 39 10.7 Annex 7 – Canary Islands- New métier sampled in the DCF: MIS_DES_0_0_0 ..................................................................... 43 10.8 Annex 8 – The lists of species indicated by FAO/CECAF as relevant for the assessments purposes ...................................... 46 2 RCM LDF 2015 Report - Final 1. Executive summary Two RCM LDF meetings were held in 2015. The first meeting, held in April at Thünen Institute (TI), Hamburg, Germany, was called on an ad hoc basis to specifically address the urgent need of implementation of a sampling programme for the fishery activities by EU vessels in the SPRFMO area. The meeting was initiated during the EU National Correspondents meeting, organized by the European Commission on March 25, 2015. As a result, a new multilateral agreement on joint sampling programme of the fishing activities in the SPRFMO area was agreed and signed. The meeting also provided the platform to discuss the already established multi-lateral agreement for the CECAF region and resulted in signing an amendment to this agreement, extending the joint sampling programme in CECAF area until end of 2016. The second meeting took place at Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz, Spain, in June, with the aim to address the general Terms of Reference set for the RCMs 2015 meetings and to provide a platform for an overview of the EU long distance fisheries over the previous year in order to evaluate the scope of required regional coordination in area of data collection. The group reviewed the progress in regional coordination since 2014, the outcomes of the 11th Liaison Meeting and feedback from the end-users. The RCM LDF reviewed the Long Distance Fisheries activity by MS in CECAF and SPRMFO areas with the use of updated 2014 data provided by MS. There were limited EU fishing activity in the SPRMFO area in 2013 and 2014. Based on the characteristics of fisheries in different regions within the CECAF area and following the proposal made by STECF EWG 14-18, geographical fishing zones in the CECAF area were revised. The RCM LDF proposes the inclusion of a new fishing ground (“Canary”). In this way, EU and non EU waters are separated at RCM level without modification of the RCM coverage, and without changes in sampling obligations or sampling patterns. Following this proposal, three fishing grounds are considered for CECAF: “Madeira”, “Canary” (both being the EU waters) and “From Morocco to Guinea Bissau” (as a non EU waters). General types of fisheries in the relevant area are described in the report. In Madeira and the Canaries, where only national vessels of one MS operate, coordination of data collection at regional level is not required as fisheries in those fishing grounds are already covered by the respective National Programmes. The status quo on the FPAs with Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau were discussed. In order to check whether there were any substantial changes in the fishing pattern in the CECAF area in 2014 which would require amendments to the National Programmes in 2016, the group updated last year’s ranking and compared the updated version to the 2014 version. Based on that comparison, the RCM LDF is concluded that there is no need for amendments to the NPs for 2016 in respect of the long distance fisheries in CECAF area. The only change to the execution of NPs in current year and 2016 relates to the NPs budgets and the need to secure funding necessary to implement the multilateral agreement on the joint sampling programme for the fishery activities in the SPRFMO area (agreed and signed by the MS concerned in 2015). In relation to the evaluation of the impact of the introduction of the landing obligation and/or preparations for its implementation in the context of the Long Distance Fisheries, the RCM LDF discussed the preliminary results of the project “For the provision of advice on the management of discards in EU fisheries beyond EU waters” (conducted under the Framework Contract No. MARE/2012/21), concerning CECAF and FPAs of Morocco and Mauritania. In general, the introduction in EU legislation of the landing obligation has no impact on activity of the long distance fishery. The RCM DCF briefly discussed project proposal on “Strengthening regional cooperation in the area of fisheries data collection” (MARE/2014/19) in relation to the combined North 3 RCM LDF 2015 Report - Final Atlantic/North Sea region. The group concluded that the work done within this project is beneficial for sampling procedures in place for the long distance fisheries. The outcomes of the project and possible future implications will be reviewed in 2016. In relation to call for proposals pre-announced by the Commission, regarding, i.a. inter- sessional work between the annual Regional Coordination Meetings, develop and test an operational framework for establishing and coordinating statistically-sound sampling programmes at a regional or EU scale, the RCM LDF decided not to form a consortium to apply for this grant, but rather participate on a national basis to other consortia that are likely to be formed. The RCM LDF 2015 made one recommendation in relation to future RCM LDF data calls – that the National Correspondents of all non-landlocked EU MS shall be contacted in order to be sure that all active fisheries in the areas in the competence of the RCM LDF are covered. It is expected that all National Correspondents contacted respond to the data call either with information on all fishing activity beyond the EU waters by the vessels under the flag of their MS or with confirmation of none of such activities, along with information
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