Greenland Lumpfish Fishery

FULL ASSESSMENT REPORT Final Report - Initial assessment of the Greenland lumpfish fishery Sustainable Fisheries Greenland Authors: Hans Lassen, Stephen Lockwood, Rod Cappell, Guro Meldre Pedersen Report No.: 2014-018, Rev. 3 Certificate No.: Not yet certified Date: 2015-04-21 Project name: Full assessment report DNV GL - Business Assurance Report title: Final Report - Initial assessment Norway AS of the Greenland lumpfish fishery Veritasveien 1 Customer: Sustainable Fisheries Greenland, Postbox 73, 1322 HØVIK, Norway 3900 Nuuk, Greenland Tel: +47 67 57 99 00 Contact person: Lisbeth Due Schönemann-Paul http://www.dnvgl.com Date of issue: 2015-04-21 Project No.: PRJC-481312-2013-MSC-NOR Organisation unit: ZNONO418 Report No.: 2014-018, Rev. 3 Certificate No.: Not yet certified Task and objective: The ojective of this report is the initial asessment of the Greenland lumpfish fishery against the Marine Stewardship Council Fishery standard: Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing. Prepared by: Verified by: Hans J. Lassen MSC Fishery Principle Expert Dr. Stephen Lockwood MSC Fishery Principle Expert Rod Cappell MSC Fishery Principle Expert and Team Leader Guro Meldre Pedersen DNV GL project manager & CoC responsible ☒ Unrestricted distribution (internal and external) Keywords: ☐ Unrestricted distribution within DNV GL MSC Fisheries, initial assessment, Greenland, ☐ Limited distribution within DNV GL after 3 years lumpfish ☐ No distribution (confidential) ☐ Secret Reference to part of this report which may lead to misinterpretation is not permissible. Rev. No. Date Reason for Issue Prepared by Verified by Approved by 0 20141020 Preliminary Draft Report for Client review Hans J. Lassen, Stephen Lockwood, Rod Cappell, Guro Meldre Pedersen 1 20141204 Peer Review Draft Report As above 2 20150214 Public Comment Draft Report As above 3 20150421 Final Report As above DNV GL – Report No. 2014-018, Rev. 3 – www.dnvgl.com Page i Table of contents ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 1 LIST OF SYMBOLS AND REFERENCE POINTS ................................................................................... 1 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Assessment team 2 1.2 Assessment timeline 2 1.3 Principle level scores 2 1.4 Main strengths and weaknesses of the client’s operation 2 1.5 Draft determination with supporting rationale 3 1.6 Conditions for certification and time-scale for compliance 3 2 AUTHORSHIP AND PEER REVIEWERS ................................................................................ 5 2.1 Assessment team 5 2.2 Peer reviewers 6 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE FISHERY ........................................................................................ 7 3.1 Unit(s) of Certification and scope of certification sought 7 3.2 Overview of the fishery 10 3.3 Principle One: Target Species Background 12 3.4 Principle Two: Ecosystem Background 20 3.5 Principle Three: Management System Background 30 4 EVALUATION PROCEDURE.............................................................................................. 33 4.1 Harmonised Fishery Assessment 33 4.2 Previous assessments 35 4.3 Assessment Methodologies 35 4.4 Evaluation Processes and Techniques 39 5 TRACEABILITY .............................................................................................................. 47 5.1 Traceability within the Fishery 47 5.2 Eligibility to Enter Further Chains of Custody 50 5.3 Eligibility of Inseparable or Practically Inseparable (IPI) stock(s) to Enter Further Chains of Custody 50 6 EVALUATION RESULTS .................................................................................................. 51 6.1 Principle Level Scores 51 6.2 Summary of Scores 51 6.3 Summary of Conditions 52 6.4 Draft determination, Formal Conclusion and Agreement 52 6.5 Changes in the fishery prior to and since Pre-Assessment 53 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 54 APPENDIX 1 SCORING AND RATIONALES ...................................................................................... 60 Appendix 1.1 Performance Indicator Scores and Rationale 60 Appendix 1.2 Risk Based Framework (RBF) Outputs 134 Appendix 1.3 Conditions 143 Appendix 1.4 Client action plan and support from involved entities 147 DNV GL – Report No. 2014-018, Rev. 3 – www.dnvgl.com Page ii APPENDIX 2 PEER REVIEW REPORTS .......................................................................................... 152 Peer reviewer 1 152 Peer reviewer 2 172 APPENDIX 3 STAKEHOLDER SUBMISSIONS ................................................................................. 200 Appendix 3.1 Comments to Peer review Draft Report 200 Appendix 3.2 Comments to Public Comment Draft Report 204 APPENDIX 4. SURVEILLANCE FREQUENCY ................................................................................... 232 APPENDIX 5 CLIENT AGREEMENT ............................................................................................... 233 Appendix 5.1 Objections Process 233 APPENDIX 6 USE OF THE RBF IN A FISHERY ASSESSMENT FORM .................................................. 234 APPENDIX 7 GREENLAND LUMPFISH MANAGEMENT PLAN ............................................................. 235 APPENDIX 8 GOVERNMENT OF GREENLAND EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 16 OF 22 DECEMBER 2011 ON REPORTING OF LANDINGS OF FISH AND FISH PRODUCTS ANNEX 1 ............................ 273 DNV GL – Report No. 2014-018, Rev. 3 – www.dnvgl.com Page iii ABBREVIATIONS ACOM Advisory Committee on Management (ICES) CITES Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species EC European Commission ETP Endangered, threatened and protected species GA Grønlands Arbeidsgiverforening / Sulisitsisut GFLK Greenland Fisheries License Control Authority GINR Greenland Institute for Natural Resources Grl Greenlandic ICES International Council for the Exploration of the Sea IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature IWC International Whaling Commission KNAPK Fishermen’s Association of Greenland / Kalaallit Nunaanni Aalisartut Piniartullu Kattuffiat LPUE Landings Per Unit Effort MCS Monitoring Control and Surveillance MFHA Ministry of Fishing, Hunting and Agriculture MPA Marine protected area MSC Marine Stewardship Council NAFO Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization NAMMCO North Atlantic Marine Mammal Organization NAPP Fishers and Hunters Association of Nuuk, part of KNAPK NWWG (ICES) North West Working Group OSPAR The (OSPAR) Convention for the Protection of the marine Environment of the North- East Atlantic PI Performance indicator PSA The Productivity-Susceptibility Analysis (PSA) used as the ‘Level 2’ analysis in the RBF. This semi-quantitative approach examines several attributes of each species that contribute to or reflect its productivity or susceptibility, in order to provide a relative measure of the risk to the scoring element from fishing activities. The PSA is required when using the RBF to score target species in P1, and may also be triggered for retained species or bycatch species in P2. R.V. Research vessel RBF Risk Based Framework SFG Sustainable Fisheries Greenland SICA The Scale Intensity Consequence Analysis used as the “Level 1” analysis in the RBF. This qualitative approach identifies the activities mostly likely to be associated with “worst case” impacts on any species, habitat or ecosystem. A SICA is best conducted with the participation of a diverse group of stakeholders who are able to provide a range of knowledge about the fishery under assessment. TAC Total allowable catch UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization LIST OF SYMBOLS AND REFERENCE POINTS FMSY Fishing mortality at MSY BMSY Spawning stock biomass at MSY MSY Maximum sustainable yield DNV GL – Report No. 2014-018, Rev. 3 – www.dnvgl.com Page 1 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides information on the initial assessment of the Greenland lumpfish fishery against Marine Stewardship Council Fishery standard: Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing v1.1. The report is prepared by DNV GL for the client organization Sustainable Fisheries Greenland. The assessment was carried out using MSC Certification Requirements v1.3. The default assessment tree was used, with the Risk Based Framework for PI 1.1.1. Sufficient information was available for scoring Principle 2 and therefore the RBF was not used for PI 2.1 and 2.2 as initially announced. 1.1 Assessment team Principle 1 expert: Hans Lassen Principle 2 expert: Dr. Stephen Lockwood Principle 3 expert and team leader: Rod Cappell DNV GL project manager and Chain of custody responsible: Guro Meldre Pedersen 1.2 Assessment timeline Announcement of initial assessment: 1 April 2014 Site visit and stakeholder 1-2 September 2014 (one stakeholder meeting conducted per phone consultations: 21 August 2014 and one 3 September 2014.) Target eligibility date: 15 March 2014 Actual eligibility date: To be confirmed 1.3 Principle level scores Table 1 Principle level scores for the Greenland lumpfish fishery Principle Principle level score Principle 1 80.1 Principle 2 89.0 Principle 3 87.1 1.4 Main strengths and weaknesses of the client’s operation The lumpfish fishery has a well-defined fishing season with little overlap with other fisheries.

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