Management plans and Danish fishery (2245)

The objectives of the project were with reference to the EU Commissions proposals on multi-annual management plans, to deliver high quality advice on management of the fishing effort in Danish fisheries in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat.

To be able to deliver the advice the project addressed the need for detailed and accurate data on catches, effort and economical performance in the main demersal Danish fisheries in the concerned areas and the need for accurate stock assessment of the economically most important fish and shellfish stocks. The project also developed a systematic method to give a qualified prediction of the selectivity of a trawl based on information on the trawl design.

The project included seven work packages:
1. Description of development in catches, fishing effort and economical performance of the main demersal Danish fisheries including creation of a single database.
2. Develop a reference fleet system to collect detailed information on catches and fishing effort.
3. Development of a software to be used to simulate trawl selectivity.
4. Establish a fisheries independent monitoring survey on Norway lobster in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat.
5. Provide advice on a fishing effort management system for the demersal fisheries in Kattegat including proposal for enhancement of the cod selectivity in trawl fisheries.
6. Provide advice on fishing effort in form of days at sea by métier.
7. Evaluate the impact of the effort management system in the Baltic Sea on the Danish fishery and the stocks.

The project was coordinated by DTU Aqua.

Research area: Fisheries Management
Research area: Fisheries Technology