Management of single and mixed stock fisheries, with particular focus on fisheries on stocks below their conservation limit
Report of a Theme-based Special Session of the Council of NASCO
Wednesday 4 June 2014 Saint-Malo, Brittany, France Management of single and mixed stock fisheries, with particular focus on fisheries on stocks below their conservation limit
Steering Committee Jóannes Hansen (Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland)) Paul Knight (Co-Chair of NASCO’s accredited NGOs) Guy Mawle (Co-Chair of NASCO’s Socio-economic Sub-Group) Niall Ó Maoiléidigh (European Union) Edited by Hansen, J., Knight, P., Mawle, G., Ó Maoiléidigh, N., Hutchinson, P., and Forero Segovia, S. L.
Management of single and mixed stock fisheries, with particular focus on fisheries on stocks below their conservation limit Contents
Page no. Executive Summary i Introduction 1 Background 1 Objectives of the Theme-based Special Session 2 Summary of contributed papers and discussion 4 • Practical application of genetics in conserving the biological integrity (diversity) of populations of Atlantic salmon 4 • Overview of the 2013 – 2018 Implementation Plans in relation to the management of salmon fisheries 5 • Management of single and mixed stock fisheries, with particular focus on stocks below their conservation limits – Ireland 7 • Canada’s management measures for wild Atlantic salmon stocks 10 • The management approach to salmon fisheries in Norway 11 • Management approach to salmon fisheries in Scotland 14 • Management of single and mixed stock fisheries, with particular focus on fisheries on stocks below their conservation limit – England and Wales 16 • General Discussion (Morning Session) 19 • The management approach to salmon fisheries in the Russian Federation 21 • The management approach to North Atlantic salmon fisheries in Finland 22 • The management approach to the West Greenland salmon fishery – fairness and balance in the management of distant-water fisheries 24 • Recent investigations into the stock composition of the Norwegian and Russian coastal salmon fisheries (the Kolarctic Salmon Project) 26 • Recent investigations into the stock composition of the Labrador Atlantic salmon subsistence fisheries 29 • Recent investigations into the stock composition of coastal fisheries in Scotland 30 • General Discussion 31 Concluding remarks by the President of NASCO 35 Conclusions of the Steering Committee 36 Annexes: Contributed Papers 43
Executive Summary NASCO's goal in relation to the management of salmon fisheries is to promote the diversity and abundance of salmon stocks and maintain all stocks above their conservation limits. Under NASCO’s 1998 ‘Agreement on Adoption of a Precautionary Approach’ it is stated that application of the Precautionary Approach to salmon fishery management requires that conservation limits and management targets be set for each river and that Stock Rebuilding Programmes are developed for stocks that are below their conservation limits. NASCO’s ‘Guidelines for the Management of Salmon Fisheries’ state that: