WorkPackage 5. Management Strategies developed with the industry.

The MS to be included in the analyses will be developed together with the fishing industry in order to secure that their demands and wishes are properly dealt with. This development will be conducted in co-operation with DF, DPPO and EUFISHMEAL as well as the AC for the Baltic, the North Sea and the Pelagic. Innovative MSs will be considered that considers several more aspects of the needs by the fishing industry than the current ones evaluated by ICES. This includes aspects like condition and size of the individual fish caught in a given fishery. Likewise stability in TAC’s is also identified to be important for the fishing and processing industry, but since stability often comes with a cost in terms of lower overall yield, this tradeoff will be considered when developing the MS. Finally, the project will look into developing alternative biomass reference points to Blim. These alternative biomass reference points will focus on identifying biomass levels where a certain Catch per Unit Effort (CPUE) can be achieved, thereby improving profitability for the fishing industry. Workshops and bilateral discussions between fishers and participants of the current project will be established to facilitate this.

Scientist and fishers will together make broad scale calculations of the economic yield, job creations, food production for humans, and carbon foodprint for the selected MS’s. We will build on the work by Ray Hilborn and colleagues “Small pelagic species have a very low carbon footprint and are therefore one of the most sustainable sources of protein” se link http://eufishmeal.org/news-events/fish-is-the-best-way-to-feed-the-world/.