Faroe Islands queen scallop 1 Marine Stewardship Council fisheries assessments Faroe Islands queen scallop Announcement Comment Draft Report Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) DNV GL Business Assurance Assessment team Jodi Bostrom, Giuseppe Scarcella, Tristan Southall Fishery client O. C. Joensen Assessment Type Initial Assessment Date 29 October 2020 DNV GL – Business Assurance assurance.dnvgl.com Faroe Islands queen scallop 2 1 Contents 1 Contents .......................................................................................................... 2 2 Abbreviations and acronyms ........................................................................... 5 3 Executive summary ......................................................................................... 6 3.1 Main strengths ........................................................................................................... 6 3.2 Main weaknesses ...................................................................................................... 6 3.3 Draft Determination .................................................................................................... 7 4 Report details .................................................................................................. 8 4.1 Authorship and peer review details ............................................................................ 8 4.2 Version details ........................................................................................................... 9 5 Unit of Assessment and Unit of Certification and results overview ................ 11 5.1 Unit of Assessment and Unit of Certification ........................................................... 11 5.1.1 Unit of Assessment ....................................................................................................... 11 5.1.2 Unit of Certification ........................................................................................................ 11 5.2 Assessment results overview .................................................................................. 12 5.2.1 Determination, formal conclusion and agreement ........................................................ 12 5.2.2 Principle level scores ..................................................................................................... 12 5.2.3 Summary of conditions .................................................................................................. 12 5.2.4 Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 13 6 Traceability and eligibility .............................................................................. 14 6.1 Eligibility date ........................................................................................................... 14 6.2 Traceability within the fishery ................................................................................... 14 6.3 Eligibility to enter further chains of custody ............................................................. 15 7 Scoring .......................................................................................................... 16 7.1 Principle scores ........................................................................................................ 16 7.1.1 Summary of Performance Indicator level scores .......................................................... 16 7.2 Principle 1 ................................................................................................................ 17 7.2.1 Principle 1 background .................................................................................................. 17 7.2.2 Catch profiles ................................................................................................................ 22 7.2.3 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data ................................................................ 22 7.2.4 Principle 1 Performance Indicator scores and rationales.............................................. 22 ............................................................................................................. 22 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................................................................................................ 68 ........................................................................... 69 ............................................................................................ 71 7.4 Principle 3 ............................................................................................................... 73 7.4.1 Principle 3 background .............................................................................................. 73 7.4.2 Principle 3 Performance Indicator scores and rationales ....................................... 74 ......................................................................... 74 ................................................................... 78 ............................................................................................... 81 ...................................................................................... 83 .................................................................................... 85 ................................................................................. 89 ............................................ 91 8 Appendices ................................................................................................... 93 8.1 Assessment information ........................................................................................... 93 8.1.1 Previous assessments .................................................................................................. 93 8.1.2 Small-scale fisheries ..................................................................................................... 93 8.2 Evaluation processes and techniques ..................................................................... 93 8.2.1 Site visits ....................................................................................................................... 93 8.2.2 Stakeholder participation ............................................................................................... 96 8.2.3 Evaluation techniques ................................................................................................... 96 8.3 Peer Review reports ................................................................................................ 96 8.3.1 Peer Reviewer A: .......................................................................................................... 97 8.3.2 Peer Reviewer B: .......................................................................................................... 97 8.4 Stakeholder input ..................................................................................................... 98 8.5 Conditions ................................................................................................................ 99 8.5.1 Summary of conditions closed under previous certificate ............................................. 99 8.5.2 Conditions ..................................................................................................................... 99 8.6 Client Action Plan ..................................................................................................... 99 8.7 Surveillance ........................................................................................................... 100 8.8 Risk-Based Framework outputs ............................................................................