Welcome to the North Sea Regional Advisory Council – NSRAC

The conference which took place on the 3rd and 4th November in Edinburgh was attended by around 130 delegates from across Europe, Japan, Australia, Iceland and America. Attached you will find the presentations from some of the eminent speakers.

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• Report of the Inter-RAC Deep Sea Species Meeting

• Report on the Bi-lateral talks (EU- Norway) on RTC’s

• Draft Agenda
• Report of the Conference

Produced documents

• Keynote Speech (by Commissioner Borg) (01)
• Achieving a Culture of Compliance (by Mary McAllan) (02)
• Review of Technical Control Measures (by Francisco-Javier Vazquez-Alvarez) (03)
• Closed Areas (by Johann Williams) (04)
• Realtime Closures (by Michael Andersen) (05)
• Realtime Closures (by Michael Andersen) (05)
• Report of the workshop on influencing behaviour (by Nathalie Steins) (07)

• Meeting Information
• Report

• Programme
• Meeting Information
• Final Meeting Report

Produced documents

• Presentation by DG Environment (by Fotios Papoulias) (01)
• Lessons from Rockall Bank (by Mark Tasker) (02)
• A fisherman’s perspective (by Ian Gatt) (03)
• Presentation by DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs (by Ernesto Penas) (04)
• The Atlantic Region Trans-national MPA Project (by Olivier Abellard) (05)

• Agenda
• All documents from the Cod Symposium Website
• Summaries from Speakers
• Press Release of December 2006
• Report of the Steering Committee of the Proposed Cod Recovery Symposium, 2nd October 2006, Aberdeen (U.K.)

Working documents

• Biographies of Speakers (01a)
• MRAG Review of institutional arrangements and evaluation of factors associated with successful stock recovery plans (09)

• Report of the workshop
• Long Term Options. Where do we want to get to? How do we get there? (J. Pope)
• Long Term Management Options. Experiences from around the world (D. Tingley)
• TAC and days at sea management: a direction for a possible solution (A.D. Rijnsdorp et al.)
• Sustainability of Fisheries (J.J. Maguire)