EU request for a technical service to compile available data and methods to estimate fishing pressure from small scale fisheries under D1/D6 for the MSFD ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Advice: Technical Services 2024
• Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; All ICES Ecoregions; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.24087489.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/EU_request_for_a_technical_service_to_compile_available_data_and_methods_to_estimate_fishing_pressure_from_small_scale_fisheries_under_D1_D6_for_the_MSFD/24087489/1

This Technical Service is in response to an EU request to explore the spatial and temporal distribution and intensity of fishing using bottom-contacting gears for vessels shorter than 12 m, with or without vessel monitoring systems (VMS), in EU waters. It is the first deliverable of the ICES response to a broader request for advice from DGENV to build upon the ICES 2021 advice (ICES, 2021a).Three different data sources were analysed: EU Fisheries Dependent Information (FDI) data, ICES VMS and logbook data, and automatic identification system (AIS) data from Global Fishing Watch (GFW) (ICES, 2023a).FDI data represent the most complete dataset in geographical (all EU waters) and temporal coverage. Fishing effort data show that vessels shorter than 12 m are predominant (Annex, Fig. 1 for Northeast Atlantic; Annex, Fig. 2 for Mediterranean and Black seas) and that most fishing effort across the reference period (2016–2021) was conducted using passive gears (Annex, Figs. 3 and 4).Mobile bottom-contacting gears ...