Joint ICES-MYFISH Workshop to consider the basis for FMSY ranges for all stocks
ICES and MYFISH organized a joint workshop to consider the basis for FMSY ranges for all stocks from 17—21 November 2014.The workshop was convened in response to a request from the European Commissionfor advice on potential intervals above and below FMSY. The meeting was attended by 14 delegates from 8 countries and 3 representatives of 3 stakeholder organisations, and was chaired by John Simmonds (ICES) and Anna Rindorf (Denmark). The work conducted was centered around six Terms of Reference concerning methods for estimating FMSY ranges, FMSY ranges for selected stocks and guidelines for estimating FMSY ranges for other stocks which are compatible with obtaining no less than 95% of the estimated maximum sustainable yield and which are considered precautionary in implementation. The upper limit to F was constrained where necessary by precautionary criteria that there should be <5% probability SSB<Blim.
MSY intervals were provided for stocks with age based assessment for the North Sea and Baltic regions. For only a few of these stocks were the upper ends of the F intervals within precautionary limits. For stocks where precautionary reference points are not available, MSY intervals were limited to a maximum rate equal to FMSY.
See the full report of the workshop here: http://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/Expert%20Group%20Report/acom/2014/WKMSYREF3/WKMSYREF32014.pdf
