Lena Tingström (presented by Karin Pettersson at MSCG Nov. 2016)

lena.tingstrom@havochvatten.se

Fisheries conservation

measures within the Common

Fisheries Policy Bratten (Sweden)

Natura 2000 site and OSPAR MPA in EEZ

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Overview of the presentation

• Proposal

• Control

• Process

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Bratten Natura 2000 site

OSPAR MPA

Foto: Tomas Lundälv/Lisbeth Jonsson, Sven Lovén Center för marina vetenskaper/Tjärnö

Norway

Denmark

Sweden

Gothenburg

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Conservation targets

• Deep hard bottoms (Natura habitat: 1170 Reef)

• Coral Gardens (OSPAR habitat)

• Sponge communities (OSPAR habitat: Deep Sea Sponge aggregations)

• Pockmarks and other burrows with elements of hard bottom (Natura habitat:

1180 Submarine structures made by leaking gases, Natura habitat: 1170 Reef)

• Soft bottoms with sea pens (OSPAR habitat: Sea pens and burrowing

megafauna)

• Cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays (several OSPAR species)

• Large fish species connected to reefs and pockmarks (several OSPAR

species)

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Identified threats

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Bottom

trawling

Fishing with

hooks and lines

Marine

transport

Military activities

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Fisheries conservation

measures

• No take zones

• Compulsory use of AIS as a

complement to VMS for all

vessels fishing in the area

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Recording a fishing activity

with VMS

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Set position

Haul position

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Set position

Haul position

Recording a fishing activity

with AIS

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Haul tracks 2014

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Background - process

• Hav möter Land (”Sea meets Land”)

o EU Interreg project 2010-2013 (SE, NO, DK)

o Producing some of the background data

• Early 2014 - request to SwAM from CAB to proceed with the proposal for fisheries management measures in Bratten located in the Swedish EEZ of Skagerrak

• New CFP 1 January 2014

• T o R FISH ENVI Scheveningen September 2014

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Common Fisheries Policy, CFP

Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 • Articles 11 and 18

- Conservation measures

necessary for compliance with

obligations under Union

environmental legislation

- Initiating Member State

- Member States having a direct

management interest

- Joint recommendation

• ToR North Sea FISH-ENVI

technical expert group

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CFP process following the ToRs

• Invitation Pre-consultation meeting 1 July 2015

• Pre-consultation meeting 10 September 2015

• Four Ad-hoc group meetings

• June 2016 - Submission of joint recommendation, Sweden,

Denmark and Germany

• July 2016 – STECF evaluation

• 5 September 2016 – Commission delegated regulation

• Under consideration by the Parliament

• 1 January 2017 – Measures in force?