UK: Cornish fishers call for ecosystem approach to pollack management

Published 2024년 5월 1일

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The Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation (CFPO) is calling for an 'ecosystem approach' to pollack management after a decision to reduce the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) by 87% in Area 7. The CFPO believes that this decision is forcing small and medium-sized fishing businesses to close or shift to other fisheries, potentially causing negative impacts on other species such as bass, hake, and crawfish. The CFPO is advocating for a more holistic management approach that considers the environmental, social, and economic implications of management decisions to avoid unintended consequences. They are suggesting a staged approach to pollack management that balances the need to rebuild the stocks with minimizing adverse social and economic impacts.

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Cornish fishers call for ‘ecosystem approach’ to pollack management. The decision to cut the TAC for pollack in Area 7 by 87% is causing extreme distress in the fishing communities of South West England, states the Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation (CFPO). In a White Paper on how an ecosystem approach could inform more intelligent management of pollack, the CFPO says: “Small and medium sized fishing businesses are being forced to the wall – or into alternative fisheries where the increased fishing effort is likely to have adverse and unintended consequences. “The recovering bass fishery could now face a serious setback in recovery, the hake fishery is being forced to absorbed more effort and the crawfish fishery may now be forced into a boom-and-bust cycle. The TAC decision on Pollack, however, also raises wider issues. It has been known for some time, that draconian management decisions of this type, taken in isolation, with severe social and economic impacts, tend to drive ...

Source: Fish Focus