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Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banned

Postby JimC » Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:58 pm

Banning mid-water / pelagic trawling until April...

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Re: Some protection for Channel Breeding Bass

Postby JimC » Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:59 pm

Bass update - Today's meeting at the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture
The meeting was well attended by representatives from many Member States, not onlythe countries directly affected by the measures (FR, UK, NL, BE and IR). Some of these non-affected countries were there to learn more about this emergency measures procedure it seems.
No final decision was taken at this meeting. The EU Commission gave the Member States Monday 12:00 as deadline for final input.
Then a vote will follow Friday next (23 January),
Some Member States expressed their wish that the fishing metiers to be affected by the measures should be better defined in the legal act.


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Pelagic trawling of Bass banned

Postby JimH » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:24 pm

Commission to adopt measures to protect sea bass stock

(19/01/2015) The European Commission has announced a package of measures aimed at averting the collapse of the declining sea bass stock. In the first instance emergency measures will be implemented to ban pelagic trawling of sea bass during spawning season which runs until the end of April.
These measures protect the stock from being targeted when at its most vulnerable; pelagic trawlers in the spawning season make up 25% of the impact on the stock. It is anticipated that the decision will be adopted and come into force before the end of the month.

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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JimC » Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:58 pm

Ban in force and other measures to come:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society ... 43&lang=en

European Commission acts to protect sea bass stock
(26/01/2015) The European Commission has announced measures to avert the collapse of the declining sea bass stock. Immediately effective emergency measures will place a ban on targeting the fish stock by trawling while it is reproducing, during the spawning season, which runs until the end of April. This will be complemented by further measures to ensure that all those who fish sea bass make a balanced and fair contribution to saving the stock.

Protecting sea bassThe European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, said: "The impact of this stock collapsing would be catastrophic for the livelihoods of so many fishermen and coastal communities. This is about saving sea bass and saving jobs in the commercial and recreational fishing sector. I am proud of our quick reaction to what is an immediate danger to the stock".
The pelagic trawling ban is a critical first step in this package of measures. This ban will protect the stock from being targeted when at its most vulnerable – when the fish is coming together in shoals during the spawning season to reproduce.
The spawning season is already underway and will last until end of April. Pelagic trawling on is a major source of mortality and reduces the spawning stock as it makes up 25% of the impact on the stock. With a reduced spawning stock further actions and any rebuilding of the stock would be endangered. The measure will therefore come into force immediately and last until 30 April 2015. It will apply to the Channel, Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and southern North Sea.
Commercial and recreational fishing
In order to help the stock of sea bass recover, more action is needed to address the impact of all other commercial and recreational fishing activities.
Therefore the Commission is currently making a renewed and urgent effort in order to help Council and Member States put in place a package of measures to manage commercial and recreational fisheries on seabass more effectively.
For recreational fishing which accounts for 25% of sea bass catches, this would include a limit of three fish per day per angler. Member States would also need to set a minimum size of 42 cm so that fish are not caught, or are released, before they have reproduced.
For other commercial fisheries than pelagic trawling, this would also include limiting catches. The Commission is working with the Member States involved to prepare a proposal to the Council of Ministers as soon as possible.
Background
Sea bass is one of the most valuable fish on which many fishermen, especially small fishing enterprises, depend. Recent scientific analyses have reinforced previous concerns of unsustainable fishing advising urgently a substantial reduction in fishing mortality. We are witnessing a rapid decline of sea bass that risks leading to a collapse if no action is taken. International scientific bodies have called for an 80% reduction in catches to turn the situation around.
Around 100 fishermen depend to a higher degree for part of the year on pelagic trawling of sea bass, while during the rest of year their income is made up also from other fisheries. There are however several hundred small scale fishermen that depend solely on sea bass for their income and for whom finding another source of income is much more difficult. With over 1.3m recreational anglers in France and another 800 000 in the UK, many thousands of jobs also depend on recreational fishing.
Following a lack of agreement between Member States since 2012 on coordinated and effective measures to protect this important stock and another lack of agreement of EU ministers in December's Fisheries Council, on 19 December 2014 the UK made a formal request to the Commission to take emergency measures. The Commission then consulted the Member States involved and analysed the scientific evidence available. On the basis of discussions with all Member States and based on the scientific evidence the Commission has taken its own decision.
The Commission has previously taken such emergency measures to protect vulnerable stocks, most recently with anchovy in the Bay of Biscay.


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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby Eoghan » Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:53 pm

A few people I know, some on this site, you know who you are have worked very hard to help get to this point, for that I give my thanks. Nice step in the right direction.
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby SeanA101080 » Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:12 am

Great news, a very positive move for future stocks.
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JimH » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:58 pm

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/111

of 26 January 2015

establishing measures to alleviate a serious threat to the conservation of the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) stock in the Celtic Sea, Channel, Irish Sea and southern North Sea

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (1), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 provides that emergency measures can be taken on duly justified imperative grounds of urgency relating to a serious threat to the conservation of marine biological resources. The Commission at the reasoned request of a Member State or on its own initiative, may, in order to alleviate this threat, adopt such emergency measures in the form of immediately applicable implementing acts applicable for a maximum period of six months.
(2)
According to scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) as well as from the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in the Celtic Sea, Channel, Irish Sea and southern North Sea (ICES divisions IVb,c and VIIa, d-h) suffers from a rapid decline in biomass, because of a combination of declining recruitment and increasing fishing mortality. The spawning stock biomass is converging towards the lowest historically observed level. The current fishing mortality is almost four times as high as the stock can sustain. ICES therefore advises to implement measures to reduce substantially fishing mortality throughout the range of the stock.
(3)
The United Kingdom by letter of 19 December 2014 has requested that the Commission take action under Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, with a view to closing ICES area VIIe to pelagic fisheries targeting sea bass during January to April 2015 in order to reduce fishing pressure by protecting the sea bass spawning aggregations. The request has been communicated to Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands as well as to the North Western Waters and to the North Sea Advisory Councils. Belgium, France and the Netherlands have sent their comments to the Commission.
(4)
The comments made by France relate to the applicability of Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, to threats caused by fishing activities and the procedure, to the proof of a serious threat, and to the risk of discrimination between fisheries. Belgium responded positively to the United Kingdom request. The Netherlands suggested the extension of actions to cover wider areas and other fisheries. With regard to the scope and the procedure of Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 it should be noted that this provision is not limited to any cause and can thus be applied to any threat, be it caused by fishing activities or by other causes, and the time limits provided for by that Article are justified by the urgency of the need to address the serious threat. The proof of a serious threat to sea bass in the case at hand is based on scientific evidence, as set out below.
(5)
Sea bass aggregate in concentrations in particular areas during December to April to spawn. The sea bass stock depends on this reproduction phase. Targeted fisheries on these spawning aggregations is conducted during that period and contributes significantly to the overall fishing mortality of the stock and especially to the reduction in numbers of adult fish that can successfully reproduce. Catch statistics confirm that such fishing practice removes mainly adult fish which can therefore no longer contribute to the reproduction of this stock.
(6)
According to the scientific assessment by ICES and STECF commercial fishing by pelagic trawls is responsible for more than 25 % of the fishing mortality.
(7)
The finding of a serious threat to the conservation of marine biological resources follows from the risk of serious harm to the reproductive capacity of the stock, due to a steep decline of the spawning stock biomass, in combination with the expectation that continued targeted fishing may inflict unsustainable damage on the spawning stock. The Commission considers that duly justified imperative grounds of urgency exist because (1) the spawning season has started and (2) the fishing on these spawning stocks has also started. Scientific evidence supports immediate action as necessary during the ongoing spawning season of sea bass by taking measures which apply immediately and remain in effect until 30 April 2015.
(8)
It is therefore urgent to take measures in order to prohibit the targeted fishing of sea bass by way of pelagic trawling during the highly sensitive spawning season between January and 30 April 2015. Further delay in providing protection to the stock would considerably reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of the emergency measures. In order to reinforce the effectiveness of these measures operators should also be enjoined not to accept transhipments and landings of sea bass caught during the period of application of this Regulation.
(9)
In order to provide effective protection to spawning aggregations, which are highly variable in location, the emergency measures should cover the entire distribution area of the stock, i.e. the Celtic Sea, Channel, Irish Sea and southern North Sea (ICES divisions IVb,c and VIIa,d-h) and include fisheries using pelagic trawls. In addition ICES areas VIIj,k are included to prevent displacement in fishing activity as stock distribution is not fully determined.
(10)
The alternative measures suggested by France would not achieve the same result as the measure contained in this Regulation, because their effectiveness is uncertain. Furthermore, in order to provide further protection to the stock of sea bass, additional measures in respect of the impact of other fisheries may also be required at a later stage.
(11)
France has provided information which demonstrates that vessels using pelagic gears with mesh sizes between 32 and 69 mm do not target sea bass and that any by-catch of such vessels has a minimal impact on the stock.
(12)
The situation of the sea bass stock in the covered areas meets all the criteria of duly justified imperative grounds of urgency relating to a serious threat to the conservation of this stock and the Commission may hence adopt the measures contained in this Regulation pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 on its own initiative and going beyond the request of the United Kingdom.
(13)
The measures provided for in this Regulation will be submitted for the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation sets emergency measures for the stock of sea bass in ICES divisions IVb,c, VIIa,d-k to alleviate imminent and serious harm to that stock.
Article 2

Measures

During the period of application of this Regulation, it shall be prohibited to fish for sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in ICES divisions IVb,c, VIIa,d-k using pelagic trawls (referred to as OTM — midwater otter trawls, PTM — midwater pair trawls) with a cod end mesh size of 70 mm or greater.
For vessels using those gears, it shall also be prohibited to retain on board, relocate, tranship or land sea bass caught during the period of application of this Regulation in the same area.
Member States shall report catches of sea bass by pelagic (OTM or PTM) gears to the Commission 14 days after the end of each month.
Article 3

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply until 30 April 2015.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 26 January 2015.
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JimC » Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:43 am

Here is the map of the areas where the ban is in effect -
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JimH » Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:51 pm

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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby SeanA101080 » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:58 pm

Just out of curiosity, is our ban from May 15th to June 15th going to change, as this new Regulation is clearly designed to protect "sea Bass during spawning season which runs until the end of April." ???? I think it's been the general feeling amongst anglers, with a while now, that our ban is a bit late into the season as it is.....
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JimC » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:38 am

SeanA101080 wrote:Just out of curiosity, is our ban from May 15th to June 15th going to change, as this new Regulation is clearly designed to protect "sea Bass during spawning season which runs until the end of April." ???? I think it's been the general feeling amongst anglers, with a while now, that our ban is a bit late into the season as it is.....


Yep, our closed season is not correct. From speaking to people that were close to the legislation back then it was a guess and more a "the anglers take pain too" approach in the light of bass being taken off the commercials menu!

IFI formed a bass policy group a few years ago to come up with a defined policy towards bass for IFI. The resulting document is here: http://www.fisheriesireland.ie/policies ... olicy/file

You can see from this document that increasing the minimum size to 50cm, reducing the allowable keep of fish and reviewing the closed season are stated policy aims. (I think it is a shame that "slot sizes" were not advocated in the policy, they missed the boat in protecting the bigger fish.)

While the documents is the stated policy aims it remains to be seen when will these will translate into the law of the land.


Aside from all that it will be interesting what other technical measures that EU members will bring to help safeguard bass stocks.
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby SeanA101080 » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:52 am

It's definately a case of "watch this space." More actions to come, and hopefully sooner rather than later!
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JULIO RAGWORM » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:01 pm

The ICES reports are losely based on facts, I would really call it a stab in the dark but please feel free to read the many articles online and correct me.I know most of the guys on here with the exception of a few would read the thread headline and think wow there's something happening out there and to a lesser extent something has happened, basically the EU has put a sticking plaster over a gaping wound. And for all the other guys on here who don't orgasm at the the thought of bass, think about what other species that will be hammered mainly by the French pair trawlers in the English channel to make up the deficit in wages for the crews, or the EU may well just dip your pockets of a few pound/euro to tide the French over for well maybe 2 months, then it's business as usual for them all, landing over 4000 tonnes of bass even though ICES has been recommending no more than 2700 tonnes to be landed each year for the past decade.The EU works in the most simplistic way even a primary school child understands it, you have something I want now what do you want from me in return. I'm not one for I told you so's but the truth will out!
Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JULIO RAGWORM » Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:55 pm

As I suspected, the French are obviously not going to dock 50 trawlers in port, nor are they going to sit idlely by and put 300 crew, auctioneers, wholesalers out of business, they are going to carry on regardless either through sheer disregard for an almost unenforceable bass ban or as I had previously posted they will just hammer another species or two to make up the wages, in this instance the French fleet spokesman has stated that sea bream and hake will be targeted. I would like the mods to stop allowing bass tarts to post ridiculous threads on the site promoting bass conservation over that of other species, I know that some of the guys make a living of bass and that's fair enough but most of us on these Islands who fish simply don't, speaking on my own behalf I wish that cod, haddock and plaice had half the coverage and sympathy that bass get on here, these species where the staple of these islands for centuries, I would even stretch the species list to now include mackerel and herring. I'm not trying to stir it up or cause offence to any individuals on here because deep down we all want the same thing, properly managed fisheries, I live about a 5 min walk to a stretch of water that held tope, cod, plaice,herring,mackerel almost every species found in the British Isles at one point, it still holds a record but sadly no more, I along with many like me spend thousands each year travelling the length and breadth of Ireland and abroad chasing these species that should be on our doorstep, and again I know that most of you feel the same, the definition of madness is continuing to do the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, but all we have gotten with the CFP is nothing but decimation of our fish stocks, please take the time to think about why, why do we keep doing the same thing and expect that the CFP will bring us a different outcome? Why do you think a temporary bass ban will do any good without a reduction on quota? why do we allow foreign boats in our waters in the first place? Most importantly when did we lose our sanity that we now no longer want the right to govern ourselves?

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Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby Tanglerat » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:30 am

Thing is Julio, thing is, see that new Bass Ban that's being introduced? That was, in a very large part, the result of recreational anglers lobbying and campaigning over a long time for more fish, and bigger fish.

If you want to see other species getting protected, you now have an example to follow. Make a stand. Take a stance. Espouse it. Gather like-minded people to your cause. Lobby. Campaign. Be prepared for knockbacks, disappointments and discouragement.

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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby JULIO RAGWORM » Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:19 pm

Good man tanglerat, I get what your saying to a certain extent and some small part of me really wants to believe that campaigning and lobbying would solve this mess but it doesn't, the bass ban is not a ban in terms that it will make a difference. The ICES studies which are primarily the "evidence" that the EU commission decided to take action on, the ICES studies where undertaken for the best part of a decade and they have continually asked for a quota reduction but at no point have the EU commission introduced it! Why now have they decided to act on scant evidence that trawling is doing to the bass population?Their own studies indicate that the weather plays a bigger percentage on breeding/mortality rate than trawling, if the commission ban was also backed up with a quota reduction from over 4500 tonnes to 2000 tonnes then maybe I would have said it was a victory I have no doubt it's down to some sort of lobbying and I don't want to take away from the hard work that some of the guys on here and all over Ireland do but as with all EU CFP decisions they are only made on purely economic terms and it stinks. I was trying to stress the point that the "bass ban" has now placed pressure on other species and I don't think that some people on here appreciate the consequences and I would like them all to know that the CFP and the EU are the main reason we are in this mess, we can campaign and lobby till the cows come home but all we will end up doing is pushing the problem onto species after species in our waters, you ban bass, hake gets hit, you ban cod and haddock then plaice and megrim get hit and the vicious cycle starts all over again.

I decided some years ago to try and take on the disease rather than the symptoms after friends of mine met with the fisheries minister here in Northern Ireland, when he was faced with evidence that had been gathered up over years from recreational skippers and shore fishermen he basically told them that what he was being told from the EU that their evidence was that the Irish Sea was full to bursting with fish which is complete nonsense but all he was doing was towing the EU line. I have been in contact with anti EU politicians and parties in the UK and made many a rant via email and phone calls but I'm preaching to the converted and unfortunately the current political mainstream parties in the UK and in Ireland are very pro EU and they have no interest or desire to change the CFP even if the EU would allow it. We need out of the political EU to force the CFP to be tore up, so I no longer fight to save or protect individual species as I have explained it never solves the problem, I campaign and fight for a complete withdrawal of the UK from the EU which if it happens will offer us a chance to protect our fisheries and make our own laws again.

no EU political union = no CFP, no unelected commissioners making our laws, locally elected ministers held accountable for fishery protection. The sooner the guys on here realise that the quicker we can start to make the real changes we need.
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Re: Some protection for Channel Bass/ Pelagic trawling Banne

Postby Tanglerat » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:31 pm

Stick around for my next thread Julio, it'll be a doozy.....
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