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7/13/2017 Agenda 12:00 Opening of the meeting by the chairman 12:05 Adoption of the agenda 12:10 Follow-up on action items 12:30 Fishing opportunities for 2017: presentation of ICES advice 13:00 Lunch Celtic Sea Sea herring 14:00 Irish Sea herring 14:15 Herring in VIa and VIIb,c 14:30 15:00 Western horse mackerel Southern horse mackerel 15:15 Working Group II Coffee break 15:45 16:00 Presentation by EFCA on gramme sizes meeting NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool 16:30 AOB 16:50 End of meeting 17:00 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Follow-up on action items Follow-up on action items Herring in 6a and 7bc General • Develop a genetic sampling protocol (6.a herring focus group) - ongoing • Send a letter to ICES inquiring whether it retains the editorial rights to stakeholder information (chairman, secretariat) ✓ • Arrange a genetics workshop with ICES once the sampling protocol is available (6.a herring focus group, Ken Whelan) - ongoing • Find out how genetic sampling could be included in the Data Collection Framework and report back to the Pelagic AC (Line Groth-Rasmussen) ✓ Irish Sea herring • Continue development of management strategy (Ian Gatt, Steven • Ask Member States and Commission to include genetic sampling in Data Mackinson, Alan McCulla) Collection Framework once a protocol has been developed (Pelagic AC) - ongoing • Include genetic sampling at WKSPLIT (Martin Pastoors) - ongoing Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Follow-up on action items Follow-up on action items Herring in 6a and 7bc Southern horse mackerel • • Arrange meeting with DG RESEARCH to seek funding for broad pelagic Present draft management strategy at PELAC July meeting (Manuela genetics project (Ken Whelan) Azevedo, Gersom Costas, José Beltran, Goncalo Carvalho, secretariat) ✓ • Peer-review herring genetics project (Ken Whelan, AST) - ongoing • Distribute draft rebuilding plan (secretariat) and provide comments Western horse mackerel within two weeks (Working Group II) ✓ • Continue genetics project (NPWG, PFA) - ongoing • Continue genetic, acoustic and morphometric research (NPWG) - ongoing • Continue PFA research project (PFA) - ongoing • Present update on genetics project at October meeting (Edward Farrell) • Convene focus group meeting in June to discuss draft - ongoing management strategy including the proposed closure (secretariat, chairman) ✓ • Provide letter of support from the Pelagic AC to University College Dublin for the herring project (chairman, secretariat) - ongoing Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands 1

7/13/2017 Follow-up on action items Follow-up on action items Western horse mackerel High survivability and de minimis exemptions • • Continue to develop management strategy (focus group) - ongoing Formulate set of rules to apply to EU purse-seine fisheries in regards to high survivability exemptions (Esben Sverdrup-Jensen, Jérôme Jourdain, • Find out about CEFAS papers on natural mortality and submit to the Nicolas Michelet, Miren Garmendia) secretariat (Andrew Campbell) • Contact AZTI and ask for advice regarding the high survivability exemption for horse mackerel (Miren Garmendia) Boarfish • Submit new information to substantiate high survivability exemptions • Follow-up on boarfish closures with NWW regional group (chairman, (all Working Group members) ✓ secretariat) • Submit de minimis recommendation to NWW and SWW group before 9 • Improve the assessment model May 2017 ✓ • Submit comments on SWW discard plan before 31st of May 2017 Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Fishing opportunities 2017 Celtic Sea herring Presentation of ICES advice • ICES advises catches of no more than 5,445 tonnes in 2018 (MSY) • PELAC management strategy: 10,127 tonnes • TAC 2017: 14.467 tonnes Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Irish Sea herring Herring in VIa and VIIb,c • ICES advises zero catch in 2018 (MSY) & develop stock recovery plan • 2018 Advice scientific monitoring 4,840 tonnes • ICES advises catches of no more than 7,016 tonnes in 2018 (MSY) • TAC 2017: 5800 tonnes (4170 t 6a north & 1630 t 6a south 7bc • TAC 2017: 4.127 tonnes (MSY) (monitoring fishery) Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands 2

7/13/2017 Stakeholders Information ICES Advice The industry, in conjunction with the Pelagic Advisory Council (PELAC), initiated a major genetic research programme in 2016 that aims to provide new stock separation information and has made significant progress on the sequencing and sequence analysis. A panel of high-graded markers is expected to be available by Stakeholders Information ICES Advice October 2017. In addition, the industry initiated an industry acoustic survey during 2016 which will be continued in 2017 so as to provide a minimum estimate of spawning stock size and to provide genetic and morphometric samples of the two separate spawning populations. As advised by ICES in both 2016 and 2017, the PELAC has developed and sent a draft rebuilding plan for herring in divisions 6.a and 7.b – cto the Commission with the request to submit it to STECF for evaluation at the July 2017 meeting. The PELAC is also requesting that a benchmark should take place as soon as possible and is hoping that this will happen in 2018 when the new genetic information on stock separation is available . Stakeholders Information ICES Advice Herring in 6a and 7bc 1. Major genetic research programme • Update from the COM on the proposed rebuilding plan 2. Industry acoustic survey. • Update on acoustic surveys (Martin 3. PELAC draft rebuilding plan Pastoors, Steven Mackinson) 4. PELAC benchmark 2018 Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Western horse mackerel Southern horse mackerel Summary of focus group meeting on 27 June: Presentation of a draft management strategy Manuela Azevedo & Gersom Costas Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands 3

7/13/2017 Control NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool Purpose The Choke Mitigation Tool is designed Presentation by EFCA on the gramme size to identify and quantify choke project situations, in order to develop contingency plans before the 1st of January 2019 when the full landing obligation is implemented Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool Split into three parts Split into three parts ▪ PART 1: Stock Identification ▪ PART 2: Quantifying the choke problem ▪ PART 3: Solutions for choke problem Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool NWWAC Choke Mitigation Tool • Presentation of the ‘choke mitigation tool’ ▪ Useful Tool Pelagic Stocks PART 1 ▪ By catches pelagic stocks in demersal fisheries • Feedback from meetings ▪ By catches demersal stocks in pelagic fisher ies PART 2 – West of Scotland (MareFrame, 9 th June) – Advice Drafting Group (NWWAC, 19 June) Recommendations – Celtic Sea (MS Expert group, 20-21 June) ▪ Develop Tool Pelagic Stocks PART 3 ▪ Work with other relevant ACs Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands 4

7/13/2017 AOB Thank you! Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands Working Group II, 11 July 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands 5