1. 1 SIFT is a Scottish Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee (No.399582) Registered Scottish Charity (No.SC042334)

2. The Clyde Using the ecosystem based management approach Charles Millar Director Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust

3. Scottish charity founded in 2011 with following aim: The sustainable management of Scotland’s inshore waters so that marine eco-systems provide the maximum long term social and economic benefits to Scotland’s coastal communities. Projects Supporting fair representation of all fisheries Inshore Finfish Monitoring, with SNH, RAFTS Firth of Clyde Project 3

4. Firth of Clyde 3700km 2 of inshore waters UK’s Inland Sea Fin-fisheries collapsed after ban on trawling and dredging lifted Remaining fishery for Scallops and Nephrops Fishery of last resort Limit of former 3 mile exclusion area

5. Collapse of Clyde fin fisheries Fin fish landings 1960 - 2010 5

6. Firth of Clyde objectives Three year project to revise the management of the Firth. Restore ecosystem diversity through the protection of the seabed and other measures Improve resilience of the fishery Increase employment in marine industries Increase local management

7. Ecosystem based management Definitions Promotes sustainable use in an equitable way Convention on Biodiversity Catering for both human and ecosystem well being. Food & Agriculture Organisation Characteristics Consideration of conflicting objectives Balancing the distribution of benefits Decentralising management

8. Proposed management measures Implement a Regulating Order Prescribed area and time period Spatially Separated Fishing Zones – Continue use of mobile gear in less sensitive areas – Protect areas with greatest capacity to recover and support biodiversity recovery Effort Control – Licence numbers – Hours

9. Proposed management measures Spatial management based upon seabed habitats

10. Clyde Fishery Management Organisation (CFMO) New organisation which will be grantee for the Regulating Order. Board comprised of local fishery interests and other stakeholders Will have powers to manage the fishery Funded by revenues from levies or licences from the commercial fishery

11. Clyde Science Trust New body to provide the scientific expertise to underpin fishery management plan. Will inform: identification of ecosystem baselines quota systems for the key commercial fisheries spatial management plans of Clyde monitoring of fisheries performance

12. Clyde project Timescale Submit Regulating Order Application in Q2 2014 Ministerial approval following Public Inquiry - 2015 Other issues MPAs Inshore Fishery Groups Clyde 2020 Vision Independence Referendum

13. Interaction with MPAs, MCAs in the proposed RO area RO area North of closing line from Mull of Kintyre to Corsewall Point, to MLWS Proposed MPAs U. Loch Fyne & Loch Goil South Arran Clyde Sill MCAs Loch Ryan Cumbraes