The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:00. Please register for the event by Thursday 12 April 2012 via http://20120419nsracdwg.eventbrite.com.

Agenda

• 2012 02 22 DWG Agenda

Report of Meeting

• DWG 2012 19 04 Report of Meeting London

Papers

• NSRAC-1112-8 Discards Policy DRAFT 1
• 2012 03 28 Letter to NSRAC Members – Kenn Skau Fischer
• 2012 04 05 DRAFT Letter to EVANS Lowri re Omega Gauge
• NSRAC-1112-2 2012 03 13 Cod Management Plan Position Paper FINAL
• NSRAC-1112-3 2012 03 15 Cod Management Letter FINAL
• NSRAC-1112-4 2012 03 15 Robust Management Systems Letter FINAL
• Paper for saith focus group
• Svalbard LTMP Seminar Tentative Program 28_March_2012
• website EU Cod Management Plan interim _2_
• Catch Composition Reconciliation
• 2012 02 22 DWG Amsterdam Report
• Booklet concerning application for permit beamtrawling in Dutch N2000 sites
• consultatie rac excom 7febr2012
• N2k007_Noordzeekustzone_overzicht met zones
• N2k163_Vlakte van de Raan_overzicht met zones
• VIBEG Agreement
• NSRAC – Bilbao Report
• Scheveningen plan of action
• SFF Paper – Effort – 2012-03-21
• Focus Saithe_report

Agenda
DWG ag Feb2012

Papers

• DWG Southwark Report 17 Nov
• NSRAC Omega Presentation EC Nov 11
• Paper for saith focus group
• STECF EWG 11-15 report draft 5
• Note – 2011-11-29 – Data Deficient Stocks
• SFA Letter – Struan Stevenson – 2012-01-31
• Draft Position Paper Cod Feb 2012 _3_
• Idea for social research
• JGS Discards etc

Agenda
2011 11 02 DWG ag Nov2011

Papers
2011 11 02 DWG Discards Paper 14 Oct
2011 11 02 DWG New draft Position Paper Cod 14 Oct
2011 11 02 DWG Schiphol Report 14 Oct
2011 11 02 DWG Suggestions for small SCALE PROJECT

Scoping meeting for Impact Assessments for Baltic Multi-species plan and cod plans in the Kattegat, North Sea, West of Scotland and Irish Sea.

Agenda (Provisional 28 October)
Terms of reference (Draft 2.2)

Location

SeaWeb

32-36 Loman Street

Southwark

London

SE1 0EH

UK

Map of Location

You can view a map of the location on Google Maps here.

Participants are requested to register with the Secretariat at NSRAC@aberdeenshire.gov.uk in advance of the meeting.

Agenda

• 2011 09 06 NSRAC Demersal WG Agenda Amsterdam

Papers

• 2011 09 06 NSRAC Demersal WG-2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Final Report London
• 2011 09 06 NSRAC Demersal WG – Science Seminar Agenda, 8 September
• 2011 09 06 NSRAC Demersal WG- ICES STECF Executive Summary

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrography (BSH)
(Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany)
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78
20359 Hamburg

Agenda
Agenda – Whiting Focus Group – Hamburg 24th June

Agenda and Final Report
2011 05 05 Demersal Working Group Agenda
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Final Report

Papers
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Cod Draft Position paper 17 05 2008
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Demersal WG Report 2011 02 18
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Non_paper_on_discards_030511
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG NW Waters Data Deficiency meet 1st April 2011
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Position_Paper_on_Cod_Discards
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Position_Paper_on_Discards 2007
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Proposal_to_STECF_11Aprilfinal
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Cod Focus Group Draft Report 2011 04 08
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Cod Position Paper Draft 27 04 11
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Draft Nephrops LTMP April 28 2011
2011 05 05 NSRAC DWG Nephrops Group Draft report 18 April 2011

Agenda
2011 04 08 Cod Recovery Focus Group – Draft Agenda

Papers
2011 04 08 Cod Recovery Focus Group – Cod Recovery Plan
2011 04 08 Cod Recovery Focus Group – NSRAC-advice-on-cod-recovery-310510
2011 04 08 Cod Recovery Focus Group – Review of EU Cod Management Plan march11
2011 04 08 Cod Recovery Focus Group – STECF Cod Review Timeframe Jan 11

Agenda and Minutes

• 2011 02 18 NSRAC DWG Provisional Agenda
• 2011 02 18 Demersal WG Report FINAL (March7)

Meeting Papers

• 2011 02 18 ITEM 2 – Rept_Demersal_WG_Nov_2010
• 2011 02 18 ITEM 4 – STECF Cod Review Timeframe Jan 11
• 2011 02 18 ITEM 6 – ICES Data Deficiency Meeting Note
• 2011 02 18 ITEM 7 Draft_Rept_Whiting_DG_17_Feb_2011_v2
• 2011 02 18 ITEM 9 – Draft_Position_Paper_on_MSY 3
• 2011 02 18 ITEM 12 – Letter to EVANS,Lowri re Whiting Discards
• 2011 02 18 ITEM 13 – OSPAR MSFD Roadmap
• 2011 02 18 ITEM TBC – Position Paper RTCs
• 2011 02 18 ITEM TBC – Euan Bell Jakfish Jan 11

A Whiting Focus Group meeting took place on 19 January 2011. The event was hosted by Marine Scotland at their offices at Victoria Quay, Leith, Edinburgh.

The following papers were issued for the meeting:

• 2011 01 19 Whiting Focus Group Agenda

Papers

• Special request – Advice September 2010
• Item 5 – Norway-EU Accord
• Item 10 – 2010 01 13 Letter to EVANS,Lowri re Whiting Discards
• Long Term Management of N S Fisheries Mar 06
• NSRAC-Advice-on-Whiting-Discards-July-2010 

The meeting took place in Brussels on Wednesday 17 November 2010 in the CPMR Offices, Rond Pont Schuman 14, 1040 Brussels.

Agenda

• Agenda 171110

Papers

• First Draft Demersal WG Report Sept 20 2010
• Draft Report on RTCs
• Resp from LE on whiting discards 181010
• Resp from LE re Cod recovery 191010
• Invitation RACs_2011
• MSY Paper Draft Oct 10
• Draft Report Nephrops Group Fraserburgh II
• Paper from Fred Normandale NFFO
• Resp from LE to Deep Sea Species 031110
• fishing_areas_en
• table2011_en
• com_2010_658_en

The meeting of the Demersal Working Group took place in Brussels on 15 September 2010  in the offices of the CPMR-CRPM, (8th floor), RP Schuman 14, 1040 Brussels.

Papers

• EC Resp to Fishing Oppor 2011.tif[1]
• Ltr from Court of Auditors Paper 13
• MSFD meeting 19.7.10
• reply NSRAC cod recovery
• Report-Nephrops-Group-Whitley-Bay
• STECF PLEN-10-02 21 FINAL REPORT PENDING ISBN NUMBER
• Final Demersal WG Report May 2010
• Draft Agenda Stocks mtg 14 Sept
• Draft Report Nephrops Group Fraserburgh 310710
• Resolving Data Deficiencies in North West Waters Fisheries July 2010 Final
• Agenda 15 sep10

This meeting took place in London on 26 May 2010 . The venue was the Princess Elizabeth Room, Mothers’ Union, Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3RB.

Agenda and Minutes

• Agenda 260510
• Final Demersal WG Report May 2010

Meeting Papers

• Draft NSRAC advice on cod recovery 190410
• Draft NSRAC whiting paper 20 04 10
• Draft Report Nephrops Group 19 04 10
• Revised Nephrops LTMP 19 04 10
• Commission seeks to get fisheries management on track in 2011
• Consultation on Fishing Opportunities for 2011
• Draft statement on governance from NSRAC
• draft Record DWG Feb 2010
• STECF Forthcoming meetings
• Making Change Make a Difference (1)
• Horizon_Scanning_Mixed_Fisheries – Amended

This meeting took place in Scotland House, 6 Schuman, Brussels on  7  April 2010

Papers

•  Agenda for meeting
• Latest draft Cod Recovery Plan

This meeting took place in Scotland House, 6 Schuman, Brussels on the afternoon of 7 April.

Papers

• Agenda for meeting(whiting) 070410

The Demersal Working Group took place on 17/18 February 2010 in Ostend.

Agenda  – NSRAC DWG 2Agenda DWG Ostend 170210

Draft record of previous meeting –  NSRAC draft Record DWG Brussels 011209

• NSRAC DWG EU Norway2010 – signed
• NSRAC DWG Nephrops LTMP Revised September 09
• NSRAC DWG Resp from EC on Omega Net Gauge 050210
• NSRAC DWG Resp to InterRAC ltr on tech measures 17.12.09
• NSRAC DWG Omega Gauge Dutch Industry Research Project

This meeting took place on 1 December 2009 in Norway House, 17 rue Archimède – 1000 Brussels.

Papers

• NSRAC DWG 1 David Symes Regionalising CFP 12-11-09 _Word_
• NSRAC DWG 2 David Symes Regionalising CFP – 13-10-09 final
• NSRAC DWG CFP%20REFORM%20Green%20Pape
• NSRAC DWG NFFO 1 Sustainable Fishing Plans Nov 09
• NSRAC DWG David Symes Comments on NFFO SustFishPlans 11-09 (Word)
• NSRAC DWG Record _corrected_141009
• Inter-RAC CFP Edinburgh Report
• NSRAC DWG 2 Agenda 01 Dec 09

The Demersal Working Group meeting was held in Provincie House Noord Holland, Haarlem, Netherlands on 14 October 2009.

Papers

• Nephrops LTMP Revised September 09
• Demersal Working Group Agenda
• Final Fishing Opportunities 2010
• Final DWG Record amended
• Nephrops LTMP Dev Gp September
• Nephrops LTMP Revised September 09
• ns rac
• NSRAC Paper on CFP Reform
• Resp from FF Advice on Self Reg 021009
• Resp from FF re In year review of Cod Rec Plan 021009
• Table – TAC 2010
• Tech reg prop 28 Sep t09
• CFP REFORM Green Paper

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 14-15 July 2009  in Aberdeen.

Papers

• Item 10 Community management in CanadaDraft Agenda one
• Item 2 Agreed record of 16 February, Berlin
• Item 4 Nephrops LTMP Edinburgh meeting
• Item 7 Commission paper on fishing possibilities for 2010
• Item 6 Commission first compromise on Control Reg
• Item 10 Draft of Self Regulation Focus Group Brussels
• Draft Record of Aberdeen Meeting 14/15 July
• Item 10 Australian Prawn Fishery Report
• Item 10 Community management in Canada
• Item 10 Nova Scotia management study
• Item 10 Australian Prawn Strategy
• Item 8 Whiting Selectivity Presentation
• Item 9 Lot 7 Dogger Bank SAC Analysis
• Item 9 Gothenburg SPWG PaperFrench Paper on Windfarm Consultations

The meeting of the Demersal Working Group took place in Berlin, Germany on 16-17 February 2009.

Papers

• Map for meeting
• Registration and Accomodation Forms
• Draft (2) Agenda
• Agreed Record Berlin DWG

Working documents

• Draft Record of Brussels DWG 29 Nov 2008 (02)
• P4 Report from joint ICES/STECF LTM meeting Copenhagen Jan 2009 (04)
• P5 EC Non-paper on Managing Fish stocks without Catch Option Tables (5)
• P9 Discussion on CFP after 2012 (9)
• P8 NSRAC Discussion on ICES Benchmarking (8)
• P6a EC proposals for revised Community Control System (6a)
• P6b NSRAC Discussion paper on proposed control regulations (6b)
• P20Summary of MIRAC 26/27 Jan 2009 ICES Copenhagen (20)
• P6c Translated Position of CNPMEM re control reg (6c)
• Pa5 A Revill Eliminator Presentation (a5)
• Pb5 A Revill Eliminator Pair Team report (b5)
• Real Time Closures – The Scottish Experience (c5)

Documents de travail

• P6c La Position du CNPMEM projet de revision politique controle (6c)
• P6d Analyse projet reglement controle (6d)

The meeting took place on 25 November 2008  in Brussels.

Papers

• Agenda
• Draft Record

Working documents

• Agreed Record of the Meeting of July 30, 2008 (01)
• Technical Conservation Proposals (5.1a)
• Non-paper on Technical Conservation (5.1b)
• Draft NSRAC position on Technical Conservation (5.2a)
• Netherlands opinion on Technical Conservation (5.2b)
• Netherlands Letter of November on Technical Conservation (5.2n)
• ICES Invitation to Benchmark Workshops (6.1)
• French opinion on Technical Conservation (5.2c)
• French Comments on Tech Cons Measures (5.2e)

Documents de travail

• Position Mesures techniques reglementcadre (5.2e)

Produced documents

• JNCC Consultation on Offshore SAC (02)

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 23 September 2008 in London.

Papers

• Agenda

Working documents

• Draft Record of Schiphol Meeting July 30 (01)
• Proposition by Netherlands on cod discards (02)
• Catch less – Land more, Scottish Proposition on Cod discards (02)
• NSRAC Draft Position On Cod Discards (02)
• WWF Bycatch Quota Paper (02)
• EC Technical Conservation Regulation Proposals (03)
• Study on Technical Conservation Measures (03)
• French Position on Technical Measures for North Sea (03)
• French Comments on Draft Technical Measures Regulation (03)
• Dutch Comments on Draft Technical Measures Regulation (03)
• Danish Comments on Draft Technical Measures Regulation (03)

Documents de travail

• Position du CNPMEM sur la proposition Hollandaise (02)
• CNPMEM Position Mesures Techniques Reglementcadre (03)

The meeting took place on 30 July 2008 in Schipol, The Netherlands.

Papers

• Agenda
• Draft Record of Schiphol Meeting July 30

Working documents

• Agreed Record of the Meeting of June 26, 2008 (03)
• Commission Policy Statement on TACs and Quotas for 2009 (06a)
• Commission Proposal for revision of the Technical Conservation Regulation (07a)
• EC non paper on specific technical measures for the North Sea (07b)
• EC non paper on specific technical measures for the North Western waters (07c)
• Towards sustainable catch of Cod by significant reduction of uncertainties in stock assessment (Dutch discard initiative) (12)

Documents de travail

• Réflexions du CNPMEM sur le document de la Commission envoyé en amont («frontloading») concernant les possibilités de pêche 2009 (06b)
• Réflexions du CNPMEM sur les possibilités de pêche pour 2009 (06c)
• Projet de règlement sur les mesures techniques de conservation en Manche Mer du Nord et Atlantique Nord–Est (07d)
• Réponse au Non papier sur les Mesures Techniques Spécifiques à la mer du Nord (07e)

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 26 June 2008, in Vigo, Spain.

Papers

• Agenda
• Draft report

Working documents

• Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 423/2004 as regards the recovery of cod stocks and amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 (04a)
• Draft NSRAC Position Paper on the Commission’s proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 423/2004 as regards the recovery of cod stocks (04b)
• Commission non-Paper on the implementation of the policy to reduce unwanted bycatch and eliminate discards in European fisheries (05a)
• WWF position relative the Commission non-Paper on the implementation of the policy to reduce unwanted bycatch and eliminate discards in European fisheries (05b)
• Position of the Dutch fishing industry in respect of the non-paper by the European Commission on the implementation of the policy to reduce unwanted by-catch and eliminate discards in European fisheries (05c)
• French response to the EC paper on discards (09)
• EC non-paper on specific technical measures for the North Sea (12)

Documents de travail

• Réponse française au document de la Commission sur les rejets (09)

Documentos de trabajo

• Proyecto de respuesta a la consulta sobre los descartes (09)

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 7-8 April 2008 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Papers

• Draft agenda
• Report of Gothenburg DWG

Working documents

• Draft Report of the meeting of November 16, 2007 in Brussels (01)
• Scottish Conservation Credit Scheme Briefing Note (04a)
• Cod Avoidance Draft (04b)
• Interesting results from sector’s own discards study are reason for further studies (06a)
• Effect of meshsize on Catch composition in Beamtrawl fishery (06b)
• Evaluation of the EU – Norway, North Sea, West of Scotland and the Skagerrak saithe management plan (09a)
• RACs’ Role in the Development of Robust and Inclusive Long-term Management Plans (09b)
• Lot 7 proposed project discussion paper (09c)

The meeting took place on 16 November 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.

Papers

• Agenda
• Report

Working documents

• Draft Report
• ACFM advice for 2008 (05a)
• Fisheries decisions in data-poor situation (05b)
• Elements of reflexion on the Cod advice by M. Andersen (05c)
• Response to the Commission on fishing opportunities (05d)
• Response to the Commission’s non paper on Cod recovery (05e)
• Non-paper of the Commission on a new approach to effort management under annex II of the TAC regulation (06a)
• Preliminary response to the Commission’s non paper on a New Approach to Effort Management under Annex II of the TAC Regulation (06b)
• Draft letter on flatfish advice (07)
• Proposal for a NSRAC Data Workshop (08)
• Proposal for a research project to assess the sex ratio of Dover sole in the Thames Estuary (09)

• Agenda

Working documents

• Agreed record of the last meeting (01)
• Letter for support of the Gill Net Focus Group (073)
• Use of the métier concept to describe gill-netting fisheries (05)
• The definition and legal position of marine recreational fishing in Europe (06)
• The Catching Capacity of lost static fishing gears (07)

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 12 September 2007 in Dublin, Ireland.

Papers

• meeting of the Demersal WG September 12, Dublin (Irlande)
• Draft Report

Working documents

• Draft Report of the meeting of June 14, 2007 in Vienna (01)
• Non paper of the Commission on Fisheries Management in Relation to Cod Recovery (04a)
• Cod Avoidance Plans: A Concept Paper for Discussion (by NFFO) (04b)
• Paper for discussion on Cod Recovery Zone Effort Caps (04c)
• Communication from the Commission on Fishing Opportunities for 2008 (05a)
• Fisheries decisions in data-poor situation (05b)
• Response from the Commission to the RACs on the discard issue (06)
• Draft letter to the Commission on LTM for flatfish (07)
• Technical Conservation Measures Workshop program (10)

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 14 June 2007 in Vienna, Austria

Papers

• Agenda
• Draft Report

Working documents

• Agreed Record
• Non paper of the Commission on Fisheries Management in Relation to Cod Recovery (04a)
• NSRAC Draft Position Paper on the Review of the Cod Recovery Plan (04b)
• A policy to reduce unwanted by-catches and eliminate discards in European fisheries – A Communication from the Commission (05a)
• Proposition for a NSRAC advice on the discards paper (05b)
• Letter to the Commission on discards from Europeche/Cogeca (05c)
• Draft letter to M. Fotiadis on front loading (09a)
• Draft letter to M. Fokion on the 8% margin of tolerance between Logbook entry and landing declaration (09b)

The Demersal Working Group meeting took place on 11 April 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Papers

• Agenda
• Draft Record

Working documents

• Draft Record of the last meeting of the DWG in Brussels, November 28th, 2006 (02)
• Summary of the Cod Symposium (04a)
• Summary of the Cod Recovery Issues
• Draft terms of reference of the STECF meeting on cod recovery (04c)
• EC information note on Scientific Advice and Stakeholder Groups (04d)
• Ecopath NorthSea Basic Description (06b)
• A policy to reduce unwanted by-catches and eliminate discards in European fisheries – A Communication from the Commission (07a)
• Position of the French fishermen on the discards issue: a proposition for a global NSRAC strategy and advice (07b)
• Specific questions on discards addressed to the RACs by the Commission (07c)
• Draft Record of the Gillnet Focus Group meeting in London, February 6th, 2006 (09a)
• Use of the métier concept to describe gill-netting fisheries (09b)
• The catching capacity of static gear (CEFAS) (09c)
• Draft record of the DWG Science sub-group meeting in Brussels, March 20 (10)

• Agenda
• Report

• Agreed record

• Draft agenda
• Agreed report

Working documents

• Agreed record of the DWG meeting in Gdynia, february 22nd (01)
• Position Paper on the Review of Cod Recovery Measures (02)
• Funding for scoping study Plaice Box evaluation (03)
• Summary of the Long Term Management Workshop Report (04)
• Template for a Long Term Management plan (05)
• Changes to the quota year (06)
• Report on the meeting of STECF in Ispra 5th to 9th June 2006 to Review the Effort Control Regime (07)

• Agenda
• Report

Working documents

• NSRAC Position Paper of December 8th, 2005 in anticipation of the December Council (01)
• Review of the Cod Recovery Plan (02)
• Consolidated Council regulation (EC) No 850/98 of 30 March 1998 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms (03)
• Non-paper by the Commission Services on technical measures in the North Sea and the Atlantic (04)
• Report od the Demersal Working Group Focus Group on Long-Term Fisheries Objectives, August 17th 2005 (05)
• Proposal for changes to the process for annual fisheries management decisions under the CFP (06)
• ICES Newsletter No 42, September 2005 (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)

• 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)

 Focus on long-term fisheries objectives.

• 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

• 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)