European Union, Norway and the United Kingdom - fisheries consultations: agreed records 2023
Agreed records of consultations from meetings of delegations from the United Kingdom, Norway and the European Union, held between November and December 2022 on the joint management of shared North Sea stocks.
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16.1 The Delegations noted that according to the ICES MSY approach catches in 2023 should be no more than 150,705 tonnes. This represents an increase of 5.8% in the advice compared to 2022. ICES estimates that discards and BMS landings are at 51.1% of total catch (in weight) in 2021, and ICES projects discard rates of 42.6% of total catch (by weight) in 2022.
16.2 The Delegations agreed to establish a TAC for 2023 in ICES Subarea 4 (North Sea) and Subdivision 20 (Skagerrak) of 150,705 tonnes. This is an increase of 5.8% compared to 2022.
16.3 The Delegations agreed that the resulting TAC for Subarea 4 is 132,922 tonnes (88.20%) and the TAC for Subdivision 20 is 17,783 tonnes (11.80%).
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