1. DEEPFISHMAN
Kick-off meeting
Nantes
12-14 May 2009

2. DEEPFISHMAN general aim
Develop strategy options for the management of deepwater fisheries in the NE Atlantic
Appropriate/new
Stock assessment methods
Biological reference points (BRPs)
Harvest Control rules (HCRs)
Managements strategies
Account of
Stock vulnerability
Biodiversity/ecosystem and VMEs sustainability and conservation
Specify additional monitoring data requirements
(e.g.) lack of on-going cruises, economics data missing in some fisheries, poor knowledge of high resolution spatial distribution of fishing effort (required for management of VMEs conservation)
Deep-water stock have proven difficult to assess so far due to (1) limitation of data; (3) lacking basic biological parameters, stock distribution, migrations
Current management does not integrate stock and ecosystem aspect (deepwater fishing is known to impact sensitive benthic communities such as CWC and sponges). Some rare non commercial species may be more sensitive to fishing than target stock (no current assessement nor management framework to take account of this)

3. Current situation: assessment
Exploratory/unreliable in most CSs
Existing data no all available to assessment groups (e.g. ICES/WGDEEP)
No protocole to integrate some data (e.g. on-board observations)

4. Current situation: management (EU only)
Main management tool= TACs
Effort limitation (cap on total effort, licensing scheme)
Existing technical measures: e.g. spatial and seasonal closures for blue ling
Ecosystem/biodiversity assessment: not integrated with stock assessment
Some MPAs designed for VMEs conservations
Licensing scheme but no protocole for adjusting fleet capacity and/or effort to TACs levels

5. What should be achived in 2012
Reliable assessments and/or indicator based management
BRPs, HCRs
Monitoring framework
Requirements for progress towards
objectives of WSSD (e.g. MSY estimated data or requirements)
(For EU) MSFD
initial ecosystem assessment
indicators relevant to the 11 ecosystem descriptors of MSFD
Monitoring framework (which data should be collected and how)
Integrated in a long-term management strategy framework

6. From 2009 to 2012 2009 Assessment Management 2012
Short term management framework
Future
Long term management and monitoring framework

7. WP1: Management and Coordination
Coordintor: IFREMER
General organisation
Governing Board
All partner representatives
Steering Group
Coordinator and
WP Leaders & 2 CS Leaders
WP7: Management strategy framework Integrates Overall Project Impacts
Leader
AZTI
WP2
Review of
existing
Management
& monitoring
approaches
Leader
CEFAS
WP3
Socio-
economic
study
Leader
UoI
WP4
Dev. of
appropriate
Assessm.
Methodol.
Leader
Imp. College.
WP5
Reference
Points
& HCRs
Leader
Imp. College
WP6
Trends in
biodiversity
Leader
IFREMER
During the kick-off we’ll go through detail of each WP
Case study are essential tot he start of the project, then we must organise the right interaction between CSs and WPs.
In the first afternoon WPs leader are presenting their WP and the way they’d like to proceed. Tomorrow morning, we’ll do a review of Case studies, these two sessions (this afternoon, tomorrow morning should allow to specify CS-WP interactions).
THE SELECTED CASE STUDIES COLLATE DATA & PROVIDE INPUTS FOR WPs
WP8: Dissemination & Outreach
Leader MRI

8. WP2 CS 1 CS 2 CS3 CS4 SC5 Directed single species fisheries
Multi species
fishery
CS3
Artisanal fisheries
CS4
Data rich
Redfish
SC5
Greenland halibut
NAFO
Reviews
Data
Preliminary report (M6)
Case study workshop (M6)
Final report (M12)
WP2

9. Case studies Case study Leader Contributors 1Directed SS
a OR Namibia
b OR W. Ireland
c Blue Ling
a NatMIRC (R Cloete)
b M.I. (L Dransfeld)
c Cefas (P. Large) a
b Ifremer, Cefas
c Ifremer, AZTI, MRI, MI, others
2 Mixed demersal
Ifremer (P. Lorance)
Cefas, IEO, MI
3 Artisanal
a RBS Cadix/BoB
b RBS Med. Sea
c BSF Portugal
a IEO (J Gil)
b HCMR (C-Y Politou)
c IPIMAR (I Figueiredo)
a Ifremer b c
4 Data rich
Redfish NEA
IMR (P. Planque)
MRI
5 Data rich
G. halibut NAFO
IEO (F. Gonzales)
IPIMAR
Case studies

10. How to proceed in practice
During the first year: major meeting= « all Case studies meeting ».
See further presentation of WP2 from P. Large
Mid-term meeting will be again here in Nantes just before or after ICES ASC 2010
Socio economic workshop durignt he second half of year 2
+ steering group (every 6 month)
+ governing board (every 12 months)

11. WP8: date of stakeholder workshop: 29-30 June 2009, Brussels
I don’t detail timetables/deadlines of WP5-WP7 now as they are less active in year 1. Essential to consider these at kick-off in terms of interactions with WP2 and CSs
WP8: date of stakeholder workshop: June 2009, Brussels
+ steering group (every 6 month)
+ governing board (every 12 months)

12. Meeting and workshops Month 1= 04/2009 Month 2= 05/2009
Meetings table as in annex 1 « Description of the work » page 19: changes in yellow boxes
Moved to date of deepsea conference Iceland 2010 ?

13. Meeting and workshops (continued)

14. Deliverables WP1 D1.2 – D.13 WP2 D2.1 WP3 WP4 D4.1 WP5 D5.1 WP6 WP7
Year 1: April Mars 2010
WP1
D1.2 – D.13
WP2
D2.1
WP3
WP4
D4.1
WP5
D5.1
WP6
WP7
WP8
D8.1 - D8.2 - D8.5 - D8.6
1 month delay

15. Project management, executives bodies
Governing board
All partners
meeting every year
Executive steering group
Coordinator + WP leaders + 2 CSs leaders
Meeting every 6 months