Senior Advisor Erling P. Larsen, DTU Aqua, Denmark,
on behalf of the DiscardLess Consortium
H2020 DiscardLess (2015-2019)
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Content of presentation
•General presentation of DiscardLess
–The idea behind the project
–How has the first year gone?
–Challenges in the project
•Cluster of WP 5+6
–WP 5 “on board handling”
–Experience from other areas
–Regional projects – Danish
–Challenges in the closter
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DiscardLess – a classic approach
•Previous experiences
•Cases – regional
•Different disciplines: economy, ecosystems, gears, behavior, practical solutions
•Syntheses and advice
•All actors involved – stakeholder strategy
•Too early to say if the approach is too ambitious?
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WP
9
Pro
ject
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ntTRANSVERSAL THEMES:
• Stakeholders Involvement• Technological Innovation• Cost Effectiveness• Control and Monitoring• Dissemination and Outreach
WP1Ecosystem scale
assessment
WP2Fishery scaleassessment
Multiscale baselines and assessments
WP3Adaptation of gear
technology
WP4Adaptation of fishing
strategies
Avoiding unwantedcatches
WP5From deck to first
sale
WP6Products to the
value chain
Optimal use of unwanted catches
Policy outreach
WP7Framing and implementing
the discard policy
WP8Bringing results to usersand spreading the word
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WP
9
Pro
ject
man
age
me
ntTRANSVERSAL THEMES:
• Stakeholders Involvement• Technological Innovation• Cost Effectiveness• Control and Monitoring• Dissemination and Outreach
WP1Ecosystem scale
assessment
WP2Fishery scaleassessment
Multiscale baselines and assessments
WP3Adaptation of gear
technology
WP4Adaptation of fishing
strategies
Avoiding unwantedcatches
WP5From deck to first
sale
WP6Products to the
value chain
Optimal use of unwanted catches
Policy outreach
WP7Framing and implementing
the discard policy
WP8Bringing results to usersand spreading the word
TRANSVERSAL THEMES:• Stakeholders Involvement• Technological Innovation• Cost Effectiveness• Control and Monitoring• Dissemination and Outreach
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What is the scene and who are the actors
• 1. The political system, the society
• 2. Ecosystems and resources
• 3. Economic systems and Fisheries
Is it one scene or several scenes. Is it the voters and the NGO’s, the biologist and international bodies and or business and the right to do as usual.
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DISCARDLESS : MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE THAT AIMS AT• Understanding the economic, biological
and social DRIVERS and IMPACTS of discard
• Proposing a set of cost-effective Discard Mitigation Strategies : the DMS Toolbox
www.discardless.eu
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III. LINKING BIOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY2. Online interactive tools
Data +Knowledge (scientists,
fishers…)
Datawarehouseand
Fact sheets
WWW dissemination and
end user comments
Overview of actualdiscards
Avoiding unwantedcatches
Optimal use of unwanted catches
Discards MitigationStrategies Toolbox
What can Science do to help?...
STATUS MONTH 11:
Started. Online atlas of data
Reviewing discard practices and incentivesa report
Choke species
Low or non-commercial value
By-catches
Highgrading
MLS
Deliberate slipping
Discarding of rest raw materials
Lessons learned from fisheries with LO experiences
Iceland 1977
New Zealand 1986
Norway 1987
Faroe Islands 1994
Canada 1995
Alaska 1998
The experience is that implementation, creation of efficient infrastructure, polishing of the management measures, MCS and compliance amongst fishermen takes time.
It took Iceland 30 years to reduce discards to 1-2% (current estimates).
Estimated discards in Norway are now 1-5%
When discarding becomes illegal it also becomes more difficult to monitor the discards
Do not expect that everything will be perfect as soon as the LO is implemented!
On-board handling of discards and monitoring
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Are the amount of UUC what we expected?•Danish data.
•The North Sea, total discard in 2010 -5.681 tons
•Most importent species: shrimps 2.911 tons, rays 947 tons, angelshark 288 tons, cod 284 tons and haddock 246 tons.
•Discard from the pelagic fishing
Eastern Channel – French fleet
English Channel–
French vessels
Annual discards 10-20 thousand tonnes
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The Danish project
•Workshop yesterday – results, discussions and further plans.
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Thank you for your attention