Advice and Recommendations - The Pelagic Advisory Council

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	Year	Downloads
Horse mackerel area alignment and sprat	2008	0-0848 Recommendation to EC on horse mackerel and sprat 0809ref07 Reply EC on horse mackerel sprat and shared stocks
Technical conservation measures	2008	0809PRAC12 Recommendation TCM regulation 0809ref10 Reply EC on TCM
Policy statement on fishing opportunities	2008	0838 Letter to EC on policy statement document Reply EC 20081021 fishing opportunities 09
Discards non-paper	2008	0827 Letter in response to discards non-paper Reply EC 20080829 Discards
TACs mackerel and herring stocks	2008	0809PRAC02 Recommendations herring and mackerel stocks 0809ref03 Reply EC on herring mackerel douglas
Shared and horse mackerel stocks	2008	0809PRAC10 Recommendations shared and horse mackerel stocks 0809ref07 Reply EC on horse mackerel sprat and shared stocks
Shark action plan	2008	0763 EC on consultation Shark Action Plan Reply EC 20080306 Sharks
Removal of Douglas bank closure	2008	0809PRAC03 Recommendation Douglas bank closure 0809ref03 Reply EC on herring mackerel douglas
MPAs	2008	0809 Recommendation to UK gov on MPAs
Timing scientific advice	2007	0706 Timing scientific advice Reply EC 20070419 Timing of scientific advice