Senior Advisor Erling P. Larsen, DTU Aqua, Denmark,

on behalf of the DiscardLess Consortium

H2020 DiscardLess (2015-2019)

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Content of presentation

•General presentation of DiscardLess

–The idea behind the project

–How has the first year gone?

–Challenges in the project

•Cluster of WP 5+6

–WP 5 “on board handling”

–Experience from other areas

–Regional projects – Danish

–Challenges in the closter

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DiscardLess – a classic approach

•Previous experiences

•Cases – regional

•Different disciplines: economy, ecosystems, gears, behavior, practical solutions

•Syntheses and advice

•All actors involved – stakeholder strategy

•Too early to say if the approach is too ambitious?

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WP

9

Pro

ject

man

age

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ntTRANSVERSAL THEMES:

• Stakeholders Involvement• Technological Innovation• Cost Effectiveness• Control and Monitoring• Dissemination and Outreach

WP1Ecosystem scale

assessment

WP2Fishery scaleassessment

Multiscale baselines and assessments

WP3Adaptation of gear

technology

WP4Adaptation of fishing

strategies

Avoiding unwantedcatches

WP5From deck to first

sale

WP6Products to the

value chain

Optimal use of unwanted catches

Policy outreach

WP7Framing and implementing

the discard policy

WP8Bringing results to usersand spreading the word

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WP

9

Pro

ject

man

age

me

ntTRANSVERSAL THEMES:

• Stakeholders Involvement• Technological Innovation• Cost Effectiveness• Control and Monitoring• Dissemination and Outreach

WP1Ecosystem scale

assessment

WP2Fishery scaleassessment

Multiscale baselines and assessments

WP3Adaptation of gear

technology

WP4Adaptation of fishing

strategies

Avoiding unwantedcatches

WP5From deck to first

sale

WP6Products to the

value chain

Optimal use of unwanted catches

Policy outreach

WP7Framing and implementing

the discard policy

WP8Bringing results to usersand spreading the word

TRANSVERSAL THEMES:• Stakeholders Involvement• Technological Innovation• Cost Effectiveness• Control and Monitoring• Dissemination and Outreach

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What is the scene and who are the actors

• 1. The political system, the society

• 2. Ecosystems and resources

• 3. Economic systems and Fisheries

Is it one scene or several scenes. Is it the voters and the NGO’s, the biologist and international bodies and or business and the right to do as usual.

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DISCARDLESS : MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE THAT AIMS AT• Understanding the economic, biological

and social DRIVERS and IMPACTS of discard

• Proposing a set of cost-effective Discard Mitigation Strategies : the DMS Toolbox

www.discardless.eu

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III. LINKING BIOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY2. Online interactive tools

Data +Knowledge (scientists,

fishers…)

Datawarehouseand

Fact sheets

WWW dissemination and

end user comments

Overview of actualdiscards

Avoiding unwantedcatches

Optimal use of unwanted catches

Discards MitigationStrategies Toolbox

What can Science do to help?...

STATUS MONTH 11:

Started. Online atlas of data

Reviewing discard practices and incentivesa report

Choke species

Low or non-commercial value

By-catches

Highgrading

MLS

Deliberate slipping

Discarding of rest raw materials

Lessons learned from fisheries with LO experiences

Iceland 1977

New Zealand 1986

Norway 1987

Faroe Islands 1994

Canada 1995

Alaska 1998

The experience is that implementation, creation of efficient infrastructure, polishing of the management measures, MCS and compliance amongst fishermen takes time.

It took Iceland 30 years to reduce discards to 1-2% (current estimates).

Estimated discards in Norway are now 1-5%

When discarding becomes illegal it also becomes more difficult to monitor the discards

Do not expect that everything will be perfect as soon as the LO is implemented!

On-board handling of discards and monitoring

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Are the amount of UUC what we expected?•Danish data.

•The North Sea, total discard in 2010 -5.681 tons

•Most importent species: shrimps 2.911 tons, rays 947 tons, angelshark 288 tons, cod 284 tons and haddock 246 tons.

•Discard from the pelagic fishing

Eastern Channel – French fleet

English Channel–

French vessels

Annual discards 10-20 thousand tonnes

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The Danish project

•Workshop yesterday – results, discussions and further plans.

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Thank you for your attention