Workshop on Seabird Bycatch Monitoring in the NEAFC Regulatory Areas (WKBB) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES Scientific Reports 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.23635305.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Workshop_on_Seabird_Bycatch_Monitoring_in_the_NEAFC_Regulatory_Areas_WKBB_/23635305/1

Revised in January 2024: Annex 4 added. In 2021, ICES received a special request for advice from the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) on seabird bycatch in the NEAFC regulatory areas (RAs). Data scoping exercises conducted in 2021, 2022, and 2023 on the availability of bycatch data in the region on the one hand and on the availability of fisheries data on the other hand concluded of important shortages both in terms of quality and quantity that prevented in-depth analyses of the magnitude and the scale of the seabird bycatch problem in the NEAFC RAs.The Workshop on seabird Bycatch monitoring in the NEAFC regulatory areas (WKBB) was the next step in the NEAFC special request. This report describes the work undertaken at the WKBB workshop that took place in Copenhagen and online in May 2023, presents a synthesis of the analytical outputs (including conclusions), and provides some recommendations for the scope and implementation of a pilot monitoring programme which will significantly improve ...