Advice and Scenarios Database



Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) in Division 4.a, Functional Unit 9 (central North Sea, Moray Firth)
StockCode
nep.fu.9
Assessment Year
2022
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
17560






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total catch (PL + PDD + PSD)
Dead removals (PL + PDD)
Projected landings (PL)
Projected dead discards (PDD)
Projected surviving discards (PSD)
% harvest rate* (for PL + PDD)
% advice change **
2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023
(t) (t) (t) (t) (t) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
MSY approach:FMSY 1249 1246 1236 10 3 11.8 -39
Other scenarios
F2021 675 673 668 5 2 6.4 -67
F0.1 826 824 817 7 2 7.8 -60
FMSY lower 964 961 953 8 3 9.1 -53
F2019–2021^ 1006 1003 995 8 3 9.5 -51
FMSY upper *** 1249 1246 1236 10 3 11.8 -39
Fmax 1576 1572 1560 12 4 14.9 -24




Symbol Footnotes
* Calculated for dead removals.
** Advice basis values for 2023 are relative to the 2022 advice value (FMSY catch advice of 2062 tonnes).
*** FMSY upper= FMSY for this stock.
^ The harvest rate in 2020 was calculated using an interpolated value for abundance (average of 2019 and 2021).