Member State report / Art9 / 2018 / D3 / Netherlands / NE Atlantic: Greater North 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 Netherlands
Region/subregion NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea
Reported by Rijkswaterstaat Centre for Water management, Ministry of infrastructure and the environment
Report date 2019-04-15
Report access XML_ART9_201904091515.xml

GES component
D3
D3C1
D3C2
D3C3
3.3.2
Marine reporting units
  • L1.2
  • L1.2
  • ANS-NL-MS-1
Features
  • Commercially exploited fish and shellfish
  • Commercially exploited fish and shellfish
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities)
GES description
For every commercially fished fish stock and crustacean or shellfish stock, the mortality from fishing (F) remains at the value or smaller than the value associated with a maximum sustainable yield (Maximum Sustainable Yield, MSY): F = Fmsy.
Spawning stock biomass (Spawning Stock Biomass of SSB) of commercially exploited fish, crustaceans or shellfish is above the MSY Btrigger precautionary level(in line with ICES catch recommendations).
Justification for non use: No GES determination available, this is provided to make the coupling to the MRU
Determination date
201807
201807
201807
Update type
New determination
New determination
New determination
Justification for non-use of criterion
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which sets targets and measures, will be the guiding principle for the management of commercial fish stocks. The objectives of MSY (CFP, D3C1 and D3C2), on the one hand, and the specific age and size distribution (D3C3), on the other hand, can be contradictory. It is also not yet sufficiently known which other factors, in addition to fishing mortality, may have an impact on fish growth. ICES has therefore concluded that this criterion still requires further elaboration. Due to these uncertainties and inconsistency between the objectives of MSY and the specific age and size distribution, the Netherlands will not implement D3C3 at this stage.
Justification for delay in setting EU/regional requirements