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TI Comparisons of landings to scientific advice indicate overshooting within the common TAC for skates and rays in the Northeast Atlantic
BT 
AF Batsleer, Jurgen
   Griffiths, Christopher A
   Bleeker, Katinka
   Johnston, Graham
   Cardinale, Massimiliano
   Lorance, Pascal
AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:3;5:2;6:4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:PDG-RBE-HALGO-EMH;
C1 Wageningen Marine Research, Wageningen University and Research , PO Box 68, 1970 AB IJmuiden , The Netherlands
   Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Turistgatan 5, SE-453 30 Lysekil , Sweden
   Marine Institute , Rinville, Oranmore, Galway H91 R673 , Ireland
   DECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability), IFREMER, INRAE, Institut Agro—Agrocampus Ouest , 44311 Nantes , France
C2 UNIV WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS
   UNIV SWEDISH SLU, SWEDEN
   MARINE INST, IRELAND
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI NANTES
SE PDG-RBE-HALGO-EMH
UM DECOD
IF 3.3
TC 0
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00878/98956/108712.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00878/98956/108713.docx
LA English
DT Article
DE ;advice;fisheries management;Rajiformes;skates and rays;total allowable catch
AB The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) typically provides advice on fishing opportunities on a stock-by-stock basis. Nevertheless, levels of total allowable catch (TAC) are sometimes set for a collection of stocks and species (i.e. a common TAC). An explicit expectation of these is that landings will scale with ICES advice, especially when ICES advice is used to calculate the common TAC. This expectation is tested for skates and rays in the Northeast Atlantic, spanning 26 stocks, 8 species, and 3 ecoregions. Using ICES landings and ICES advice data from 2016 to 2022, we show that landings of several stocks and species have overshot their respective ICES advice, whereas others have undershot. Specifically, some stocks of blonde ray (Raja brachyura) in North Sea and Celtic Seas ecoregions are being landed at a rate that often exceeds double its ICES advice. By collating species based on their ICES assessment category and life-history traits, we find that those considered data-poor and potentially most vulnerable to fishing are consistently landed at higher-than-expected rates in the Celtic Seas. This study questions the appropriateness of a common TAC for skates and rays and calls for shifts towards the use of single-stock catch allocations and the application of advanced stock assessment methodologies. 
PY 2024
PD APR
SO ICES Journal of Marine Science
SN 1054-3139
PU Oxford University Press (OUP)
VL 81
IS 3
BP 470
EP 479
DI 10.1093/icesjms/fsae008
ID 98956
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