The Pelagic AC provides credible, scientific, and consensus-based advice to inform pelagic fisheries policy, both upon the request of the European Commission and Member States, and on its own initiative. All advice and recommendations are developed and approved by the members of the Pelagic AC.
Our advice — and responses to it — may be accessed below.
| Name | Summary | Year | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorandum of Understanding between the Pelagic AC and the Member States | The Pelagic AC has drafted a Memorandum of Understanding setting out principles of collaboration for future work under the CFP. | 2015 | 1415PAC128 MoU Denmark 1415ref20 Response MoU UK 1415ref22 NWW MS response to MoU 1415ref24 Response Scheveningen Group MoU 1415ref26 Reponse MoU and MCE meeting SWW group MOU North West Waters Group MoU PELAC MS draft MoU South West Waters Group |
| Questions on Northeast Atlantic mackerel | The Pelagic AC asks for expert opinion on reasons for observed decreased weights at age, early spawning and late maturation in Northeast Atlantic mackerel, as well as the role of density dependent effects, managing exploitation in large stock scenarios and definitions for short, medium and long term. | 2015 | 1415PAC140 Questions on mackerel |
| Meeting request on monitoring, control and enforcement | The Pelagic AC requests a meeting with the high-level group of the North Sea, North Western Waters and South Western Waters regional groups to discuss monitoring, control and enforcement. | 2015 | 1415PAC143 Meeting request on MCE 1415PAC144 Meeting request on MCE 1415PAC145 Meeting request on MCE 1415ref26 Reponse MoU and MCE meeting SWW group 1516PAC 04 Response to NWW group 1516ref01 Control and enforcement in NWW (Mrs Mossink) |
| Meeting between ICES and Advisory Councils | The Pelagic AC suggests to hold a dedicated yearly meeting between ICES and the Advisory Councils, similar to the previous MIRAC meeting. | 2015 | 1415PAC138 Meeting ICES ACs |
| Setting of reference points | In this joint letter the Pelagic and Baltic Sea AC express their concern regarding the recent decision to change reference points outside the expert groups that usually calculate reference points. | 2015 | 1415PAC141 Setting of reference points 1516ref03 Setting of reference points |
| Annual report on the implementation of the landing obligation | The Commission requests information on the implementation of the landing obligation. | 2015 | 1516PAC15 Implemention of LO 1516ref08 Annual report LO request for info |
| Benchmark request Western horse mackerel | The Pelagic AC requests a benchmark meeting for Western horse mackerel by early 2017 at the latest. | 2015 | 1415PAC153 Benchmark request Western horse mackerel |
| Btriggers and Ftargets Northeast Atlantic mackerel | The Pelagic AC asks for verification of precautionary fishing mortalities and associated biomass triggers. | 2015 | 1415PAC139 Verification mackerel Ftargets and Btriggers |
| Clarification on blue whiting Fmsy | The Pelagic AC requests clarfication from the European Commission on questioning the Fmsy value presented by ICES for blue whiting. | 2015 | 1415PAC78 blue whiting Fmsy 1415ref21 Blue whiting Coastal States request 1415ref21 Blue whiting Fmsy |
| Discard plans | This letter presents a reaction to the consultation process by the Member States regional groups on the development of discard plans. | 2014 | 1415 PAC 01 discard plans 1415ref10 Response EC on discard plans |