Working toward ecosystem-based LTMPS for North Sea mixed demersal fisheries

Q2. What does MSY mean for mixed fisheries and how can it be achieved?

WhitingCod

Haddock

and support…

…good decisions that minimise the risk of a bad outcome.

Q1. What objectives and measures are best when trying to maximise the yield of one stock when we known it has an impact on other stocks and fisheries?

Identifying Trade-offs is critical –

Accounting for uncertainty and making it understandable is essential in the learning process

Demersal trawling

Barrie Deas, Mike Parrk (NSRAC), Steven Mackinson (Cefas)

Ecosystem models can help with this

Trade-offSpace