Welcome to the North Sea Regional Advisory Council – NSRAC

• Agenda

Working documents

• Draft Terms of Reference (00)
• Programme of the Spatial Planning Working Group (01)
• Fishing on a square inch (02)

• Agenda
• Final report of the focus group on Criteria for Managed Areas
• Final report of the steering group for the pilot study of key fishing areas

Working documents

• Background paper on criteria to assess proposals for spatial measures (chair) (01)
• Criteria for introduction of managed or protected areas (CEFAS) (02)
• Scoping feasibility of collecting data on fishing activity (chair) (03)
• Criteria for assessing proposals for spatial measures (chair) (04)
• VMS data: a note (CEFAS) (06)
• UK implementation of the EC Data Regulation (SEERAD) (07)
• Joint meeting of the NSRAC Spatial Planning Working Group and OSPAR MASH Group (Oct 5 2005) (08)
• Collecting fisheries data (chair) (09)
• Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (10)
• New ad hoc science budget to support work on regionally and locally generated fisheries management issues (11

• Agenda
• Agreed record

Working documents

• Draft Terms of Reference (00)
• Fax from Mr Holmquist (01)
• Commission closed boxes non paper (03)
• UK effort 1997-2003 & 2004 North Sea & West of Scotland (04)
• Long-term management objectives for fisheries: the WSSD targets (05)
• Closed areas propositions (CEFAS) (06)
• Impact of a large-scale area closure on patterns of fishing disturbance and the consequences for benthic communities (07)

• Agenda

Working documents

• Demersal Working Group draft record of the October 16th meeting, Stockholm (01)
• Propositions of the SFF to improve the management of target species and the selectivity in small mesh fisheries in the northern north sea (02)
• Proposal by the Dutch fishery sector regarding the position of beam trawlers in the Cod Recovery Plan (03)
• Project Proposal from the Demersal Working Group for a workshop on Long Term Management of North Sea Fisheries (04)
• Summary of Ices Advice, agrred TACs & WG Landings 95-06 (06)

• Report

• Debriefing of RACs coordination meeting

• Agenda
• Final report of the focus group

Working documents

• Summary of the RIVO report on MSY (02)
• SFF response to the MSY non-paper (03)
• Long-term management objectives for fisheries: the WSSD targets (CEFAS) (04)
• The Economics of MSY (RIVO) (05)
• MSY: Background, problems, opportunities (JJ Maguire) (06)

• Agenda
• Agreed record

Working documents

• Assessment of the ecological effects of the Plaice Box (01)
• Shetland and Plaice box STECF report (02)
• Report of the EC Expert WG established “to assess the effectiveness of the Shetland and Plaice Boxes in terms of conservation and sustainable exploitation objectives” (03)

• Agenda

Working documents

• EC response to Shetland and Plaice Boxes (03)
• Draft report of the focus group on Improvements to Whiting Assessments (04)
• Simplification of Fisheries Regulations – NFFO Priority Items (05)
• NFFO comments on Commission Proposal on Recording and Reporting of Fishing Activities and on the means of Remote Sensing (06)
• Changing the Quota Year: NFFO View (07)

Executive Committee October 21, Stockholm (Sweden)

• Report of Stockholm Excom 21 Oct 2005

2nd General Assembly October 20, Stockholm (Sweden)

• Report of Stockholm GA 20 Oct 2005

Executive Committee June 27-28, Hamburg (Germany)

• Draft record of the 2nd ExCom

1st Executive Committee January 31 – February 1, Boulogne s/Mer (France)

• Report of the first Executive Committee