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Advancing Bycatch Monitoring: ICES Expert Groups and Future Initiatives

This article provides insights on ICES' bycatch work, including the role of Expert Groups like WGBYC for protected species bycatch. It delves into annual advice on bycatch of marine vertebrates, fisheries impact on ecosystems, and ongoing efforts to improve data collection and assessments. The text highlights collaborations with WGCATCH and updates from Working Groups like WGMME focusing on marine mammal ecology and JWGBIRD on seabird ecology. It also addresses the need for enhanced cooperation for more robust advice and monitoring practices.

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Advancing Bycatch Monitoring: ICES Expert Groups and Future Initiatives

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  1. By-catch work at ICES Lara Salvany, Professional Officer, Environment advice ICES

  2. Short introduction to: ICES bycatch work at ICES Future work

  3. ICES Advisory Process

  4. ICES work on bycatch • Expert Groups • WGBYC: Bycatch of Protected Species • JWGBIRD: SeaBird Ecology • WGMME: Marine mammal ecology • WGEF: Elasmobranch Fishes • WGCATCH: Commercial catches • Advice regarding the impact of fisheries on the ecosystem • Annual advice on Bycatch of protected and potentially vulnerable marine vertebrates • Fisheries overviews and ecosystem overviews

  5. 1. Working Group on Bycatch of Protected Species (WGBYC) Co-Chairs: Sara Königson, Kelly Macleod WGBYC collates and assesses information on bycatch monitoring and assessment for protected species, including mammals, birds, turtles, and rare fish. ICES issues a data call (from 2017) on from monitoring/sampling effort, fishing effort and bycatch incidents in protected species. Annual advice to EC on bycatch of protected species (PETS)

  6. https://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/Advice/2019/2019/byc.eu.pdfhttps://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/Advice/2019/2019/byc.eu.pdf

  7. Bycatch work at ICES- ways forward • ICES intends increasing the quantitative nature of ICES advice on bycatch in the near future and include these in the fisheries overviews. • Continue develop and improve the ICES data call on bycatch • Improve fishing effort data • Cooperation with other WG (WGCATCH)

  8. ICES Working Group on Marine Mammal Ecology (WGMME) Chair: Anders Galatius, Anita Gilles Report on seal and cetacean population abundance, population/stock structure, management frameworks (including indicators and targets for MSFD assessments), and anthropogenic threats to individual health and population status..... Focus on bycatch ​​​

  9. Joint OSPAR/HELCOM/ICES Working Group on Seabirds Report 2018: Progress on assessing bycatch mortality of marine birds in the NE Atlantic and Baltic as part of the preparation for the joint OSPAR-HELCOM workshop for incidental bycatch Seabird bycatch is currently a candidate indicator under OSPAR and a core indicator under HELCOM, but these indicators are not yet operational, largely due to lack of comprehensive data on seabird bycatch in both the NE Atlantic and Baltic Sea.

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