Advice and Scenarios Database



Whiting (Merlangius merlangus) in Division 6.a (West of Scotland)
StockCode
whg.27.6a
Assessment Year
2018
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
9792






Catch scenarios


Basis
Catch total
Wanted catch*
Unwanted catch*
F total
F wanted
F unwanted
SSB
% TAC change **
% SSB change ***
% Advice change ^^
2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2020 2020 2020 2020
(t) (t) (t) (ratio) (ratio) (ratio) (t) (%) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
Precautionary approach: Zero catch 0 0 0 0 0 0 24239 -100 -9
Other scenarios
FMSY lower 3152 1184 1968 0.15 0.052 0.098 20760 456 -22
FMSY 3730 1400 2330 0.18 0.063 0.117 20131 557 -24
F2018 1171 441 730 0.053 0.0185 0.035 22939 107 -13.9
Flim 5368 2010 3358 0.27 0.094 0.176 18359 844 -31
Fpa 3919 1471 2448 0.19 0.066 0.124 19925 591 -25
FMSY × SSB2019/MSYBtrigger 2305 867 1438 0.108 0.037 0.07 21688 307 -18.6
FMSY lower× SSB(2019)/MSYBtrigger 1937 729 1208 0.09 0.031 0.058 22092 242 -17
SSB2020 = Bpa = MSYBtrigger ^
SSB2020= Blim ^




Symbol Footnotes
* “Wanted catch” is used to describe fish that would be landed in the absence of the EU landing obligation. The “unwanted catch” refers to the component that was previously discarded.
** Wanted catch in 2019 compared with the TAC of Subarea 6 (213 tonnes). Note the stock area is only Division 6.a.
*** SSB 2020 relative to SSB 2019.
^ The Blim, Bpa, and MSY Btrigger options were left blank because SSB2020 = Blim and SSB2020 = Bpa = MSY Btrigger cannot be achieved in 2020, even with zero catch advice.
^^ Advice value for 2019 relative to advice value for 2018. This is not provided because the advice in 2018 was zero.