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A fishing net with significant blue whiting capture. (Photo: Terje Engoe/Copyright: FIS)
NEAFC agrees conservation measures proposed by the EU
(EUROPEAN UNION, 11/22/2016)
At the 35th Annual Meeting of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC), important conservation and management measures for 2017 were adopted, most of them at the initiative of the EU.
The attendees at the meeting, held in London on November 14-18, took a series of decisions to protect deep-sea species. Furthermore, they paved the way for a stronger fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by adopting the basis for an electronic reporting system.
This system will start development over the coming year and it aims to significantly improve fisheries inspection operations in NEAFC waters.
The decisions included conservation measures for blue whiting, herring, mackerel, redfish in the Irminger Sea and Rockall haddock.
At the initiative of the EU, participants also agreed to ban directed fishing for deep-sea sharks, rays and chimaeras, and spurdogs.
The NEAFC also decided that bans on fisheries targeting basking shark and porbeagle remain in place.
Participants also adopted the EU's proposed temporal and geographically specified ban on fishing with bottom gears for blue ling.
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