Sixth meeting of the Specialised Committee on Fisheries - agenda
Updated 11 October 2024
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Hybrid (Brussels and video-conference) 9 am to 12 pm, 27 June 2023
Agenda
1. Opening of the Specialised Committee and adoption of the agenda.
2. Fisheries management and conservation:
a. Update on fisheries management measures.
b. Mechanism for transfers of fishing opportunities.
c. Guidelines on notifications under Article 496(3) of the TCA.
d. TAC alignment:
i. Lemon sole, witch, turbot and brill.
ii. Whiting (Celtic Sea) and Plaice (English Channel).
e. Celtic Sea technical measures.
3. Fishing opportunities, including scientific coordination:
a. EU-UK annual consultations for 2023 - recap.
b. Guidelines for setting TACs for Special Stocks.
c. Review of footnotes.
d. Skates and Rays.
e. Update on ICES requests:
i. Whiting (Celtic Sea) and Plaice (English Channel).
ii. Horse mackerel.
iii. Ecosystems-based fisheries management aspects for forage fish species.
iv. Seabass allocation tool.
v. Stocks with no advice (Celtic Sea saithe, and Western Channel and Bristol Channel herring).
vi. Discard survivability exemptions.
vii. Roundnose grenadier.
viii. Mixed fisheries science.
4. Non-quota stocks:
a. Multi-year strategy for Channel King Scallops.
b. Seabass shore-netting.
5. Landings data exchanges.
6. Control and enforcement.
7. Next steps.
8. Any Other Business (AOB).
9. Closure.