ICES WGFTFB 2017 REPORT STEERING GROUP ON INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM OBSERVATION AND MONITORING ICES CM 2017/SSGIEOM:13 REF ACOM AND SCICOM Interim Report of the ICES-FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB) 4-7 April 2017 Nelson, New Zealand International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Conseil International pour l’Exploration de la Mer H. C. Andersens Boulevard 44–46 DK-1553 Copenhagen V Denmark Telephone (+45) 33 38 67 00 Telefax (+45) 33 93 42 15 www.ices.dk [email protected] Recommended format for purposes of citation: ICES. 2017. Interim Report of the ICES-FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB). ICES WGFTFB 2017 REPORT 4-7 April 2017. Nelson, New Zealand. ICES CM 2017/SSGIEOM:13. 194 pp. The material in this report may be reused using the recommended citation. ICES may only grant usage rights of information, data, images, graphs, etc. of which it has own- ership. 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This document is the product of an Expert Group under the auspices of the Interna- tional Council for the Exploration of the Sea and does not necessarily represent the view of the Council. © 2017 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................ 1 1 Administrative details .................................................................................................. 2 2 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 3 3 Term of Reference .......................................................................................................... 4 4 Participants and Meeting Agenda .............................................................................. 6 5 Explanatory Note on Meeting and Report Structure ............................................... 7 6 Opening of the meeting ................................................................................................ 8 7 Open Session Presentations ......................................................................................... 9 7.1 FAO briefing on relevant activities ................................................................... 9 7.2 Facilitating change in commercial fisheries: Successes, challenges, and human behaviour ....................................................................................... 12 7.3 New Zealand Bycatch issues ............................................................................ 15 7.4 Gear development ............................................................................................. 18 7.5 Technology for efficient and selective harvesting of crustaceans ............... 20 7.6 Means and methods to mitigate bycatch, discards, and seabed impact .................................................................................................................. 24 7.7 Topic group meetings ....................................................................................... 27 7.8 Fisheries and gear technology in Kenya and Tuna fishery .......................... 29 8 Topic Group: Change Management in Fisheries (Change) .................................. 31 8.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 31 8.2 Participants and Meeting Summaries ............................................................. 33 8.3 Results and Discussion ..................................................................................... 36 8.4 Conclusions ........................................................................................................ 45 8.5 Recommendations ............................................................................................. 47 8.6 Appendices ......................................................................................................... 47 9 Topic Group: Evaluation of trawl groundgear for efficiency, bycatch and impact on the seabed (Groundgear) ......................................................................... 83 9.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 83 9.2 Participants ......................................................................................................... 84 9.3 The accomplishment ......................................................................................... 84 9.4 The Work Plan.................................................................................................... 85 10 Topic group: Assessment on energy use and fuel consumption in fisheries (Energy) ......................................................................................................... 87 10.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 87 10.2 General Overview .............................................................................................. 87 10.3 Terms of Reference ............................................................................................ 87 10.4 List of Participants ............................................................................................. 88 10.5 Discussion ........................................................................................................... 88 10.6 Recommendations ............................................................................................. 92 10.7 References ........................................................................................................... 93 11 National Reports .......................................................................................................... 94 11.1 General Overview .............................................................................................. 94 11.2 Belgium ............................................................................................................... 95 11.3 France ................................................................................................................ 102 11.4 Germany ........................................................................................................... 109 11.5 Spain .................................................................................................................. 114 11.6 United States of America ................................................................................ 117 11.7 Denmark ........................................................................................................... 126 11.8 Sweden .............................................................................................................. 130 11.9 Ireland ............................................................................................................... 131 11.10 Netherlands ...................................................................................................... 132 11.11 Iceland ............................................................................................................... 145 11.12 Scotland ............................................................................................................. 146 11.13 Norway ............................................................................................................. 148 11.14 Canada .............................................................................................................. 161 11.15 Italy .................................................................................................................... 164 11.16 Japan .................................................................................................................. 171 11.17 Korea ................................................................................................................. 173 12 Other Business............................................................................................................ 176 12.1 Date and Venue for the 2018 WGFTFB Meeting ......................................... 176 12.2 Requests from other ICES Working Groups to WGFTFB .......................... 176 12.3 Discussion about JFATB ................................................................................. 177 12.4 The manual for measuring the Selectivity.................................................... 177 12.5 E-mail groups ................................................................................................... 177 12.6 Recommendations for workshop .................................................................. 178 12.7 Chair from FAO ............................................................................................... 178 12.8 Topic Groups for the 2018 WGFTFB Meeting .............................................. 179 Annex 1: List of participants ........................................................................................... 182 Annex 2: Agenda ............................................................................................................... 186 Annex 3: