NORTH ATLANTIC ALBACORE ARTISANAL FISHERY MSC Certificate code: MSC-F-31246 (F-BV-00483) Illustration taken from: http://zallo.com/es/blog Announcement Comment Draft Report Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) Carola Kirchner, Carmen Morant and Gemma Quílez Assessment team OPEGUI, OPESCAYA, OPACAN & Federación de Cofradías de Asturias Fishery client Re-assessment Assessment Type Date March 2021 Marine Stewardship Council fisheries assessments 1 Contents 1 Contents ........................................................................................................... 2 2 Glossary ............................................................................................................ 4 3 Executive summary ............................................................................................ 5 4 Report details .................................................................................................... 6 4.1 Authorship and peer review details ............................................................................ 6 4.2 Version details ........................................................................................................... 7 5 Unit(s) of Assessment and Unit(s) of Certification and results overview .................. 8 5.1 Unit(s) of Assessment and Unit(s) of Certification ........................................................... 8 5.1.1 Unit(s) of Assessment ..................................................................................................... 8 5.1.2 Unit(s) of Certification .................................................................................................... 15 5.2 Assessment results overview ....................................................................................... 16 5.2.1 Determination, formal conclusion and agreement ........................................................ 16 5.2.2 Principle level scores..................................................................................................... 16 5.2.3 Summary of conditions .................................................................................................. 17 5.2.4 Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 17 6 Traceability and eligibility ................................................................................. 18 6.1 Eligibility date............................................................................................................. 18 6.2 Traceability within the fishery...................................................................................... 18 6.2.1 Traceability and segregation systems within the fishery ............................................... 18 6.2.2 Determination of risk associated to traceability factors prior to entering CoC .............. 21 6.3 Eligibility to enter further chains of custody .................................................................. 22 6.4 Eligibility of Inseparable or Practicably Inseparable (IPI) stock(s) to enter further chains of custody 22 7 Scoring ........................................................................................................... 22 7.1 Summary of Performance Indicator level scores ............................................................ 22 7.2 Principle 1 .................................................................................................................. 24 7.2.1 Principle 1 background .................................................................................................. 24 7.2.2 Catch profiles ................................................................................................................ 34 7.2.3 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data ................................................................ 35 7.2.4 Principle 1 Performance Indicator scores and rationales .............................................. 37 ................................................................................................................. 37 ........................................................................................................... 41 ........................................................................................................... 42 ...................................................................................... 46 North Atlantic Albacore ACDR Page 2 of 193 Marine Stewardship Council fisheries assessments .......................................................................................... 50 ........................................................................................... 54 7.3 Principle 2 ................................................................................................................. 58 7.3.1 Principle 2 background .................................................................................................. 58 7.3.2 Principle 2 Performance Indicator scores and rationales .............................................. 89 .............................................................................................. 89 .......................................................................... 92 ......................................................................................... 96 .......................................................................................... 98 ..................................................................... 100 .................................................................................... 104 .................................................................................................. 106 ............................................................................... 111 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rationales ............................................ 145 ............................................................................. 145 ........................................................................ 152 .................................................................................................. 156 .......................................................................................... 158 ......................................................................................... 161 ..................................................................................... 166 ................................................. 171 8 References .................................................................................................... 173 9 Appendices ................................................................................................... 182 9.1 Assessment information............................................................................................ 182 9.1.1 Previous assessments – delete if not applicable ........................................................ 182 9.1.2 Small-scale fisheries ................................................................................................... 184 9.2 Evaluation processes and techniques ......................................................................... 185 9.2.1 Site visits ..................................................................................................................... 185 9.2.2 Stakeholder participation ............................................................................................. 185 9.2.3 Evaluation techniques ................................................................................................. 185 North Atlantic Albacore ACDR Page 3 of 193 Marine Stewardship Council fisheries assessments 9.3 Peer Review reports ................................................................................................. 186 9.4 Stakeholder input ..................................................................................................... 187 9.5 Conditions – delete if not applicable .......................................................................... 188 9.5.1 Summary of conditions closed under previous certificate ........................................... 188 9.5.2 Conditions – delete if not applicable ........................................................................... 189 9.6 Client Action Plan ..................................................................................................... 189 9.7 Surveillance ............................................................................................................. 190 9.8 Harmonised fishery assessments – delete if