Research for PECH Committee – Landing Obligation and Choke Species in Multispecies and Mixed Fisheries. Vol.1: The North. Sea. Vol.2: The South Western Waters

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Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.Vol.1 The North Sea: The demersal fisheries in the North Sea are highly mixed. Several Common Fishery Policy (CFP) tools and additional policy adjustments have been implemented since 2015. They have helped deal with the landing obligation but have not incentivised discard reductions. Many potential choke issues are primarily political, linked to quota distribution rather than quota shortage. A few specific situations (including plaice, hake and elasmobranchs) are considered difficult to address with the current CFP tools. Results-based approaches with full documentation of catches should be promoted.

Vol.2: The South Western Waters: This study presents an identification of the likely stocks that could act as choke stocks under the landing obligation to be fully implemented in 2019 for South Western Atlantic Waters. The study provides an estimation of the likely surplus/deficit quota by stock, Member State and EU level. It also analyses the likely solutions to it and if the likely management possibilities have been used or not. It finally provided a list of stocks of high risk of being choke after the application of the existing tool box for alleviating the choke problem in the near future.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, April 2018: Research for PECH Committee - Landing Obligation and Choke Species in Multispecies and Mixed Fisheries - The North Sea http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2018/617471/IPOL_STU(2018)617471_EN.pdf
European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, April 2018: Research for PECH Committee - Landing Obligation and Choke Species in Multispecies and Mixed Fisheries - The South Western Waters http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2018/617473/IPOL_STU(2018)617473_EN.pdf

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