European Union, Norway and the United Kingdom - fisheries consultations: agreed records 2025
Agreed records of consultations from meetings of delegations from the United Kingdom, Norway and the European Union, held in November 2024 on the joint management of shared North Sea stocks.
16 Haddock
16.1 The Delegations noted that according to the ICES MSY approach catches in 2025 should be no more than 112,435 tonnes. This represents a decrease of 25 % in the advice compared to 2024. ICES estimates that discards, BMS landings and industrial bycatch are at 33.3% of total catch (by weight) in 2023. ICES projects a combined discards and industrial bycatch rate of 19.7% of total catch (by weight) in 2024.
16.2 The Delegations agreed to a set a TAC for 2025 of 112,435 tonnes. This is a decrease of 5.5% compared to 2024.
16.3 The Delegations agreed that the resulting TAC for Subarea 4 (85.26%) is 95,862 tonnes, the TAC for Subdivision 20 (5.24%) is 5,892 tonnes and the TAC for Division 6.a (9.50%) is 10,681 tonnes.
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