Member State report / Art9 / 2018 / D3 / Italy / Mediterranean: Ionian Sea & Central Mediterranean Sea

Report type Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article Art. 9 Determination of GES (and Art. 17 updates)
Report due 2018-10-15
GES Descriptor D3 Commercial fish and shellfish
Member State Italy
Region/subregion Mediterranean: Ionian Sea & Central Mediterranean Sea
Reported by ISPRA - Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
Report date 2020-10-01
Report access MSFD_2018_ART9_GES_IT_2020-07-31.xml

GES component
D3
D3C1
D3C2
D3C3
3.3.2
Marine reporting units
  • IT-ISCMS-0001
  • IT-ISCMS-0001
  • IT-ISCMS-0001
Features
  • Commercially exploited fish and shellfish
  • Commercially exploited fish and shellfish
  • Commercially exploited fish and shellfish
GES description
All the target species exploited by commercial fishing subject to national and international management plans, together with the main species of small pelagics (anchovies and sardines), are subject to sustainable fishing pressure and the biomass of the spawners is kept within precautionary limits. In particular: a) for all target species subject to regular analytical stock assessment assessments, the levels of indicators relating to fishing mortality and spawning biomass must be contained within biologically safe limits defined by the most suitable "reference points" depending on the available data and of the species, taking into account a "precautionary margin" that considers levels of uncertainty, measured statistically or empirically; b) for the other target species, the values ​​of the population indicators derived from scientific campaigns associated with the D3C1, D3C2, D3C3 criterion are higher than a minimum precautionary margin of the historical series in percentiles.
All the target species exploited by commercial fishing subject to national and international management plans, together with the main species of small pelagics (anchovies and sardines), are subject to sustainable fishing pressure and the biomass of the spawners is kept within precautionary limits. In particular: a) for all target species subject to regular analytical stock assessment assessments, the levels of indicators relating to fishing mortality and spawning biomass must be contained within biologically safe limits defined by the most suitable "reference points" depending on the available data and of the species, taking into account a "precautionary margin" that considers levels of uncertainty, measured statistically or empirically; b) for the other target species, the values ​​of the population indicators derived from scientific campaigns associated with the D3C1, D3C2, D3C3 criterion are higher than a minimum precautionary margin of the historical series in percentiles.
All the target species exploited by commercial fishing subject to national and international management plans, together with the main species of small pelagics (anchovies and sardines), are subject to sustainable fishing pressure and the biomass of the spawners is kept within precautionary limits. In particular: a) for all target species subject to regular analytical stock assessment assessments, the levels of indicators relating to fishing mortality and spawning biomass must be contained within biologically safe limits defined by the most suitable "reference points" depending on the available data and of the species, taking into account a "precautionary margin" that considers levels of uncertainty, measured statistically or empirically; b) for the other target species, the values ​​of the population indicators derived from scientific campaigns associated with the D3C1, D3C2, D3C3 criterion are higher than a minimum precautionary margin of the historical series in percentiles.
Determination date
201812
201812
201812
Update type
Modified from reported determination
Modified from reported determination
Modified from reported determination
Justification for non-use of criterion
Justification for delay in setting EU/regional requirements