Regulation (EU) 2018/976 on fishing mortality ranges and safeguard levels for certain herring stocks in the Baltic Sea

Summary:

The European Commission on 18 December 2017 proposed an amendment of Regulation (EU) No 2016/1139 as regards fishing mortality ranges and safeguard levels for certain herring stocks in the Baltic Sea. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted a new Regulation on 4 July 2018.

Further information:

One of the central objectives of the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is reaching the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) exploitation rate for all stocks in order to restore and maintain populations of fish stocks at sustainable levels i.e. above biomass levels capable of producing MSY.

Regulation (EU) No 2016/1139 established a multiannual management plan for the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea. The objective of the plan was to ensure that the exploitation of the stocks concerned restores and maintains populations of those stocks above levels which can produce MSY.

A scientific assessment conducted by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in 2017 showed that the respective MSY values for the stocks of Bothnian Sea herring and of Bothnian Bay herring have changed since the adoption of Regulation (EU) No 2016/1139. It is therefore appropriate to propose an amendment of that Regulation in light of the most recent scientific advice available.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)774: Proposal to amend Regulation (EU) 2016/1139 as regards fishing mortality ranges and safeguard levels for certain herring stocks in the Baltic Sea https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:774:FIN

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