North Sea RAC

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North Sea RAC

• Socio-Economic Development Group Meeting
• Edinburg 15 April 2008
• Presentation of EU IMAGE and MEFEPO projects
• by
• Sten Sverdrup-Jensen, IFM

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IMAGEIndicators for Fisheries MAnaGement in
Europe

• FundingEU 6th FP
• Duration Nov 2006 October 2009
• Partners IMARES (lead), CEFAS, IFREmer,DIFRES,
  COISPA, EMI, IFM

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IMAGE Objectives

• Develop an operational framework of candidate
  indicators to support Ecosystem Based Fisheries
  Management
• Elaborate indicators into comprehensive
  dashboards to support management decision making
• Develop methodology to integrate this information
  into tools suppporting the decision making
  process
• Develop a framework that can evaluate management
  strategies based on indicators
• Test their applicability in regional case studies
  (in consultation with the RACs)

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IMAGE workpackages

• Design operational framework
• Using ecological indicators in contxt
• Selection of indicators for socio-economic
  objectives
• Tools for decision support
• Management strategy evaluation model
• Case studies (Baltic Sea, Celtic Sea/Bay of
  Biscay,Mediterranean Sea, North Sea
• Pan European synthesis

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IMAGE Work Package 3Selection of indicators
for socio-economic objectives

• To develop an operational framework of
  socio-economic indicators to support
  ecosystem-based fisheries management in RAC
  regions
• To identify shortcomings in availability of
  indicator data at the required scale and
  recommend on measures to provide such data
• To contribute to the development of an evaluation
  framework for fisheries management strategies
  based on indicators
• To advise on how indicators can be implemented in
  the NSRAC area.

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WP 3 Actions

• 1. Develop a detailed fisheries system
  framework that specifies economic, social and
  other human drivers and how they combine in
  to/determine fishing practice (pressure) in
  various metiers and institutional settings
• 2. Specify how fishing practice (pressure)
  translates into landings and discards and
  identify indicators that can inform on 1)
  socio-economic pressure drivers, 2) management
  responses, and 3) state (metier/sector
  performance relative to CFP socio-economic
  objective To develop a viable, efficient,
  globally competitive fisheries and aquaculture
  industry.
• 3. Identify data needs and availability
• 4. Develop and test indicator framework with
  research partners and North Sea RAC
• 5. Contribute to pan-European synthesis

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WP 3 Actions

• 1. Develop a detailed fisheries system
  framework that specifies economic, social and
  other human drivers and how they combine in
  to/determine fishing practice (pressure) in
  various metiers and institutional settings
• 2. Specify how fishing practice (pressure)
  translates into landings and discards and
  identify indicators that can inform on 1)
  socio-economic pressure drivers, 2) management
  responses, and 3) state (metier/sector
  performance relative to CFP socio-economic
  objective To develop a viable, efficient,
  globally competitive fisheries and aquaculture
  industry.
• 3. Identify data needs and availability
• 4. Develop and test indicator framework with
  research partners and North Sea RAC
• 5. Contribute to pan-European synthesis

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Socio-economic system
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WP 3 Actions

• 1. Develop a detailed fisheries system
  framework that specifies economic, social and
  other human drivers and how they combine in
  to/determine fishing practice (pressure) in
  various metiers and institutional settings
• 2. Specify how fishing practice (pressure)
  translates into landings and discards and
  identify indicators that can inform on 1)
  socio-economic pressure drivers, 2) management
  responses, and 3) state (metier/sector
  performance relative to CFP socio-economic
  objective To develop a viable, efficient,
  globally competitive fisheries and aquaculture
  industry.
• 3. Identify data needs and availability
• 4. Develop and test indicator framework with
  research partners and North Sea RAC
• 5. Contribute to pan-European synthesis

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CFP objectives

• LEVEL 1
• Precautionary approach shall be applied in
  taking measures designed to protect and conserve
  living aquatic resources, to provide for their
  sustainable exploitation and to minimise the
  impact of fishing activities on marine
  eco-systems. It shall aim at a progressive
  implementation of an eco-system based approach to
  fisheries management. It shall aim to contribute
  to efficient fishing activities within an
  economically viable and competitive fisheries and
  aquaculture industry, providing a fair standard
  of living for those who depend on fishing
  activities and taking into account the interests
  of consumers

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CFP objectives

• LEVEL 2 EU operational objectives
• 1. To maintain fishing mortality at or below
  levels that are necessary to achieve maximum
  sustainable yield1 for all targeted stocks
• 2. To maintain or reduce fishing impact on the
  eco-system at or below sustainable levelsc
• 3. To develop a viable, economically efficient
  and globally competitive European fisheries and
  aquaculture industry
• LEVEL 3 RAC operational objectives ?????

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Economic viability and efficiency indicatorsDCR
(1639/2001) minimum programme (Extended
programme includes greater level of detail (e.g.
regional differentiation )

• FISHING ENTERPRISES
• Income
• Production costs
• Fixed costs
• Financial position
• Investment
• Prices per species
• Employment

• PROCESSING INDUSTRY
• Raw material volume
• Income
• Production costs
• Financial position
• Investment
• Product values
• Employment
• Capacity utilization

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Fleet short term performance (Economic
Performance of Selected European Fishing Fleets,
Annual Report 2005.
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Fleet medium term performance
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Medium and short term performance of 89 EU
fishing fleet segments (metiers?) in 2004
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Performance indicators of the EU fishing fleet by
sea area in 2004.
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North Sea fishing fleet, short and medium term
performance(number of segments and value of
landings), 2004
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Social and cultural viability indicators

• Industry indicators
• - profitability of economic sectors
• - fisheries-related activity (no. of businesses,
  employm.)
• - economic importance of sectors
• Community indicators
• - population (size, diversity, opportunities)
• - social well-being (satisfaction, identity)
• Institutional arrangement indicators
• - social policy (advice, support, funds)
• - fisheries governance (participation,
  understanding etc.)

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Global competitiveness

• Indicators
• Absense of subsidies at EU/national levels (fuel
  and other inputs, fish prices)
• Absense of EU tariffs and duties on imported fish
  products
• Absense of technical measures that hamper
  international trade in fish products

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WP 3 Actions

• 1. Develop a detailed fisheries system
  framework that specifies economic, social and
  other human drivers and how they combine in
  to/determine fishing practice (pressure) in
  various metiers and institutional settings
• 2. Specify how fishing practice (pressure)
  translates into landings and discards and
  identify indicators that can inform on 1)
  socio-economic pressure drivers, 2) management
  responses, and 3) state (metier/sector
  performance relative to CFP socio-economic
  objective To develop a viable, efficient,
  globally competitive fisheries and aquaculture
  industry.
• 3. Identify data needs and availability
• 4. Develop and test indicator framework with
  research partners and North Sea RAC
• 5. Contribute to pan-European synthesis

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Social and cultural viability performance
indicators

• Socio-economic data frame
• Fishing community profiles (baseline data)
• Data collection (revised DCR soft data)
• Recent work completed
• 1) North Sea Womens Network, Dataframe project
• 2) DG Fish SIA Study Profiles of Baltic Fishing
  Communities

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Indicator data discussion sources

• DCR-Data Collection Review (Huntington et al.
  2003)
• STECF-SGRN DCR Review, 2006
• ESPON Action 2.1.5 Territorial Impacts of
  European Fisheris Policy, Final Report (2006)
• INDECO WP6 Recommendations and Gaps for Uses of
  Socio-Economic Indicators on the Environmental
  Impact of Fishing Activities (D18)
• NSRAC SEFG A Social Assessment Framework for
  Fisheries building on Scoping Study (2006)
• North Sea Womens Network Developing a
  Socio-Economic Dataframe (2007)
• DG Fish, Socio-Economic Analysis Unit "Framework
  for analyzing social and economic impacts of
  management proposals (2007)
• DG Fish SIA study (2007)
• Hatcher, Holmyard, and Hoof A Social Assessment
  Framework for Fisheries (2006).

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An institutional framework for designing and
monitoring ecosystem-based fisheries policy
experiments (Murray Rudd, Fisheries and Oceans
Canada, Ecol. Econ.cs 2003)
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WP 3 Actions

• 4. Develop and test indicator framework with
  research partners and North Sea RAC
• 5. Contribute to pan-European synthesis

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4. Develop and test indicator framework with
research partners and North Sea RAC

• Collaboration with NS RAC Socio-Economic
  Development Group Socio-Economic Data Frame
  building on Scoping Study (2006) and Case Studies
  (2007)
• Discussion with NS RAC (ExCom members and others)
  on socio-economic management objectives at RAC
  level
• Draw on experiences from Socio-economic Impact
  Analysis projects
• - NS Plaice and Sole Management Plan?
• - Other?

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MEFEPO

• Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan
  Operational
• Troels J. Hegland, Jesper Raakjær and Sten
  Sverdrup-JensenInnovative Fisheries Management,
  Aalborg University

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• EU 7th Research Framework Programme
• KBBE-2007-1-4-19 Governance for an operational
• regional ecosystem approach to fisheries
  management
• Project runs from spring 2008 to spring 2011
• Total budget around 4 million
• Partners
• University of Liverpool (coordinator), UK
• Instituto de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar,
  Portugal
• Institute for Marine Resources Ecosystem
  Studies, Netherlands
• Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
• Marine Institute, Ireland
• University of Tromsø, Norway
• Centre for Environment, Fisheries Aquaculture
  Science, UK
• Innovative Fisheries Management, Denmark
• Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
• Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain

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Background

• The FP5-funded European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan
  (EFEP) project developed a Fisheries Ecosystem
  Plan (FEP) for European waters, using the North
  Sea as a case study.
• EFEP incorporated social and political sciences,
  marine ecology, fisheries science and
  mathematical modelling to identify the effects of
  fisheries management scenarios (including changes
  in effort, changes in gear types and spatial
  closures) on the ecosystem, and their
  acceptability to a broad range of marine
  stakeholders including fishers, fish processors,
  managers, policy makers, scientists and
  environmentalists.
• EFEP also developed a step-wise framework for the
  transition of management from the current regime
  to an ecosystem approach, and an outline of how
  the FEP could be made operational within existing
  legislation.

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MEFEPO objectives

• To show how an ecosystem approach to fisheries
  can be made operational within three major
  European regions (North Sea, North Western Waters
  and the South Western Waters RAC regions) by
  identifying the management objectives, and the
  operational strategies required to achieve those
  objectives, using economic, social and ecological
  approaches.
• To evaluate the different modes of fisheries
  governance, and their combinations, and their
  implications on the development of the
  institutional frameworks used to manage the
  fisheries to provide a transitional framework
  towards a mature ecosystem approach to fisheries
  management.
• To develop operational FEPs for the three marine
  regions targeted at an audience of non-scientists
  with managerial, policy and RAC roles, and which
  provides a vision of an mature ecosystem approach
  and a description of how it can be delivered.

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MEFEPO plan
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IFM involvement

• WP 3 Operational instruments and adaptive
  management
• WP 4 Institutional frameworks in the European
  Union and Associated Countries
• WP 6 Identify the operational challenges to
  introducing an ecosystem approach to the
  fisheries
• WP 7 Develop operational Fisheries Ecosystem
  Plans for the (a) North Sea, (b) North Western
  Waters and (c) South Western Waters regions

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Thank you