MSC SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES CERTIFICATION FFA Finland Baltic Herring & Sprat Fishery Public Comment Draft Report March 2018 Certificate Code: TBC Client: Finland Fishermen’s Association / Suomen Ammattikalastajaliitto R.Y. Assessment Conducted by: Acoura Marine Ltd On behalf of Acoura Jim Andrews and Giuseppe Scarcella Acoura Version V2.1 04/01/17 Acoura Marine Peer Review Draft Report FFA Finland Baltic Herring & Sprat Fishery Assessment Data Sheet FFA Finland Baltic Herring & Sprat Fishery Public Comment Draft Report March 2018 CAB details Acoura Marine Address 6 Redheughs Rigg Edinburgh EH12 9DQ Phone/Fax 0131 335 6662 Email [email protected] Contact name(s) Fisheries Department Client details Finland Fishermen’s Association / Suomen Ammattikalastajaliitto R.Y. Address Jordaksentie 124, FIN-07840, Lindkoski, Finland Phone/Fax +358 400720690 Email [email protected] Contact name(s) Kim Jordas Assessment Team Team Leader Jim Andrews P1 Assessor Giuseppe Scarcella P2 Assessor Jim Andrews P3 Assessor Jim Andrews Copyright © 2017 by Acoura Marine All rights reserved. No portion of this report may be reproduced in any manner for use by any other MSC Conformity Assessment Body without the express written permission of Acoura Marine, and subject to such conditions specified by Acoura Marine in any such permission. Page 1 of 380 Acoura Marine Full Assessment Template per MSC V2.0 02/12/2015 Acoura Marine Peer Review Draft Report FFA Finland Baltic Herring & Sprat Fishery Contents 1 Glossary ...................................................................................................................... 12 2 Executive Summary ..................................................................................................... 14 3 Authorship and Peer Reviewers ................................................................................... 16 Assessment Team ................................................................................................ 16 Peer Reviewers ............................................................................................. 17 RBF Training ......................................................................................................... 17 4 Description of the Fishery ............................................................................................ 18 Units of Assessment (UoA) ................................................................................... 18 Units of Assessment ...................................................................................... 18 Other eligible fishers ...................................................................................... 19 Overlapping fisheries ..................................................................................... 20 Overlapping fisheries ..................................................................................... 20 Final UoC(s) .......................................................................................................... 20 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and Catch Data ....................................................... 21 Scope of fishery .................................................................................................... 23 Overview of the fishery ......................................................................................... 24 Overview ........................................................................................................ 24 Trawl fishery .................................................................................................. 25 Herring Trap fishery ....................................................................................... 28 Principle One: Target Species Background ........................................................... 35 Sprat (Sprattus sprattus) in the Baltic Sea (Subdivisions 22-32) .................... 35 Herring (Clupea harengus) in Subdivisions 25–29 and 32 (Central Baltic Sea, excluding Gulf of Riga) ................................................................................................. 40 Herring (Clupea harengus) in Subdivision 30 (Bothnian Sea) ........................ 44 Herring (Clupea harengus) in Subdivision 31 (Bothnian Bay) ......................... 48 Fishery management in the Baltic Sea ........................................................... 52 Multiannual plan for the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 ................................................. 54 Multispecies considerations for the central Baltic stocks: cod in Subdivisions 25– 32, herring in Subdivisions 25–29 and 32, and sprat in Subdivisions 22–32 ................. 56 Target Species as “Key Low Trophic Level (LTL)” Species ............................ 60 Principle Two: Ecosystem Background ................................................................. 62 Primary & secondary non-target species ........................................................ 62 Endangered, Threatened & Protected (ETP).................................................. 80 Habitats ......................................................................................................... 98 Ecosystems ................................................................................................. 106 Principle Three: Management System Background............................................. 109 Legal & Customary Framework .................................................................... 109 Page 2 of 380 Acoura Marine Full Assessment Template per MSC V2.0 02/12/2015 Acoura Marine Peer Review Draft Report FFA Finland Baltic Herring & Sprat Fishery Fishery management objectives................................................................... 117 Management systems and processes .......................................................... 118 Monitoring and evaluation ............................................................................ 125 5 Evaluation Procedure ................................................................................................. 126 Harmonised Fishery Assessment ........................................................................ 126 Harmonisation activities ............................................................................... 126 Comparison of scores .................................................................................. 127 Previous assessments ........................................................................................ 129 Assessment Methodologies ................................................................................ 129 Evaluation Processes and Techniques ............................................................... 130 Site Visits ..................................................................................................... 130 Consultations ............................................................................................... 130 Evaluation Techniques ................................................................................. 130 Risk Based Framework (RBF) Use .............................................................. 133 Scoring elements ......................................................................................... 135 6 Traceability ................................................................................................................ 138 Eligibility Date ..................................................................................................... 138 Traceability within the Fishery ............................................................................. 138 Trawl fishery UoAs ....................................................................................... 138 Trap fishery UoAs ........................................................................................ 139 Eligibility to Enter Further Chains of Custody ...................................................... 140 Parties eligible to use the fishery certificate ................................................. 140 Point of change of ownership of product ...................................................... 140 List of eligible landing points ........................................................................ 140 Eligibility of Inseparable or Practicably Inseparable (IPI) stock(s) to Enter Further Chains of Custody ......................................................................................................... 141 7 Evaluation Results ..................................................................................................... 142 Principle Level Scores ........................................................................................ 142 Summary of PI Level Scores ............................................................................... 142 Summary of Conditions ....................................................................................... 142 Recommendations .............................................................................................. 142 Determination, Formal Conclusion and Agreement ............................................. 142 Changes in the fishery prior to and since Pre-Assessment ................................. 143 8 References ................................................................................................................ 145 9 Appendix 1: Assessment Tree ..................................................................................