Joint Recommendation of the Scheveningen Group Amending The
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Joint Recommendation of the Scheveningen Group amending the Discard Plan for Demersal Fisheries in the North Sea and establishing a Discard Plan for small pelagic fisheries and industrial fisheries in the North Sea final version 04.05.2020 Index Introduction: ................................................................................................................................................. 3 A. Generalities ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1. Background ............................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1. Legal background ................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2. Scheveningen High-Level Group ............................................................................................................ 5 1.3. Consultation with relevant Advisory Councils ......................................................................................... 5 1.4. Previously submitted Joint Recommendations ....................................................................................... 6 1.5. Extent of discarding in North Sea Demersal Fisheries ........................................................................... 7 1.6. Pelagic fisheries ..................................................................................................................................... 8 2. Objectives and scope of the discard plan .................................................................................................. 8 2.1. Objectives ............................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2. Scope ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 3. Implementation of the landing obligation ................................................................................................... 9 4. Exemptions .............................................................................................................................................. 10 5.Adaptation of the Joint Recommendation .................................................................................................. 11 B. Discard Plan for Demersal Fisheries ................................................................................................... 11 6.1. Exemptions supported by scientific information already accepted and agreed upon ............................ 11 6.1.2. High survivability exemption for Norway Lobster caught with bottom trawls fitted with a cod-end with a mesh size of at least 70 mm equipped with a species selective grid with a bar spacing of maximum 35 mm in ICES divisions 2a, 3a and ICES subarea 4 (Article 3(1) point b 2) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238, as amended by a, still to be published, Regulation (EU) No …/…) ................................................................. 12 6.1.3. High survivability exemption for common sole below minimum conservation reference size with OTB and cod-end mesh size 80-99mm within six nautical miles of the coast but outside identified nursery areas in ICES division 4c (Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) ................................................................ 13 6.1.4. High survivability exemption for by-catch of all species subject to catch limits in pots and fyke nets in ICES division 3a and ICES subarea 4 (Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................. 14 6.1.5. High survivability exemption for plaice caught with gill nets and trammel nets and Danish seines in ICES division 3a and ICES and subarea 4 (Article 6(1)(a) and Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................................................. 14 6.1.6. De minimis exemption for common sole in fisheries for common sole by vessels using trammel nets and gill nets in ICES divisions 2a, 3a and ICES subarea 4 (Article 10 point a) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................................................. 15 6.1.7. De minimis exemption for common sole in fisheries for common sole by vessels using beam trawls (TBB) with mesh size 80-119 mm, equipped with a Flemish panel in ICES subarea 4 (Article 10 point b) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................. 15 6.1.8. Combined de minimis exemption for common sole, haddock, whiting, cod, saithe and hake in fisheries for Norway lobster by vessels using bottom trawls with a species-selective grid in ICES division 3a (Article 10 point c) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) ............................................................................................ 16 6.1.9. Combined de minimis exemption for common sole, haddock, whiting, cod, plaice, saithe, herring, Norway pout, great silver smelt and blue whiting in fisheries for Northern prawn by vessels using bottom trawls with a species-selective grid in ICES division 3a (Article 10 point d) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................................................................... 16 6.1.10. Combined de minimis exemption for whiting and cod in mixed demersal fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls or seines (TR2) with a mesh size of 70-99 mm (TR2) caught with bottom trawls or seines in ICES division 4c (Article 10 point e) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238)..................................................... 17 6.1.11. De minimis exemption for whiting in fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls with a mesh size of 90- 119 mm equipped with Seltra panel or bottom trawls with a mesh size equal or larger than 120 mm in ICES division 3a (Article 10 point g) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .............................................................. 17 6.1.12. In the fisheries of Norway lobster a de minimis exemption for plaice below the minimum conservation reference size in fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls with a mesh size of 80-99 mm equipped with a SepNet in ICES subarea 4 (Article 10 point i) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) ...................................... 18 6.1.13. De minimis exemption all species subject to catch limits in fisheries for brown shrimp by vessels using beam trawls in ICES division 4b and 4c. (Article 10 point j) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) ....... 18 6.1.14 De minimis exemption request for ling (Molva molva) for vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT and PTB) ≥120mm in the North Sea in ICES subarea 4. (Article 10 point …) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238 as amended by Regulation (EU) No 2020/….) (still to be published) .......................................................... 19 6.2. Additional scientific information supporting existing exemptions .......................................................... 20 6.2.1. High survivability exemption for plaice below the minimum conservation reference size caught with 80-119 mm beam trawl gears (BT2) in ICES subarea 4 (beam trawl - Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................................................. 20 6.2.2. High survivability exemption for skates and rays caught by all fishing gears in the North Sea in ICES division 3a and ICES subarea 4 (Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .......................................... 31 6.3. Additional scientific information for extending to 2021-2023 provisionally applicable exemptions granted in 2020 ............................................................................................................................................ 35 6.3.1. High survivability exemption for Norway lobster caught with bottom trawls with a cod- end larger than 80mm or with a cod-end of at least 35 mm + species selective grid with bar spacing of maximum 19 mm in ICES divisions 2a, 3a and ICES subarea 4 (Article 3(1) point b) (1) and (b)(3) and Article 3(3)of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................................... 35 6.3.2. High survivability exemption for plaice when targeting flatfish or round fish (Bottom trawls with a mesh size of at least 120mm) in ICES division 3a and ICES subarea 4 (Article 6(1) point c) and Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238) .................................................................................................................. 37 6.3.3. High survivability exemption for of plaice caught with trawls with a mesh size of at least 90-99 mm equipped with Seltra panel targeting flatfish or roundfish in ICES division 3a, — plaice caught with trawls with a mesh size of at least 80-99 mm targeting flatfish or roundfish in ICES subarea 4 (Article 6(2) and Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 2019/2238)............................................................................................ 40 6.3.4. High survivability