Discarding in the English Channel, Western approaches, Celtic and Irish seas (ICES subarea VII)

Summary

Discarding is a common feature throughout global fisheries and of widespread management concern. The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) catch and discard data collection programme has been conducting sampling operations on English and Welsh registered fishing vessels in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) subarea VII since 2002. Within this subarea, these vessels were found to mainly operate in the English Channel, Western approaches, Celtic and Irish sea. We present the findings of this work and estimate the annual quantities of discards (fish and cephalopods) in terms of numbers and weights between 2002 and 2005 Keywords: Discards; By-catch; English Channel; Western approaches; Celtic sea; Irish sea

Publication Reference No.

SR622

Publication date

01 May 2007