Advice and Scenarios Database



Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in divisions 4.b-c, 7.a, and 7.d-h (central and southern North Sea, Irish Sea, English Channel, Bristol Channel, and Celtic Sea)
StockCode
bss.27.4bc7ad-h
Assessment Year
2024
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Replaced
Published
Stock Assessment Key
18975
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25019183.v2






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total removals*
Ftotal
SSB
% SSB change**
% advice change***
2025 2025 2026 2026 2025
(t) (ratio) (t) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
MSY approach: F = FMSY × SSB2025/MSY Btrigger 2776 0.159 13477 0.89 14.1
Other scenarios
EU MAP^: FMSY×SSB2025/MSYBtrigger 2776 0.159 13477 0.89 14.1
EU MAP^: FMSYlower×SSB2025/MSYBtrigger 2330 0.131 13827 3.5 -4.2
EU MAP^: FMSYupper×SSB2025/MSYBtrigger 2776 0.159 13477 0.89 14.1
F=FMSYlower 2506 0.142 13689 2.5 3
F=FMSY 2984 0.1713 13315 -0.32 23
F=FMSY upper 2984 0.1713 13315 -0.32 23
F=0 0 0 15672 17.3 -100
Fpa 3486 0.203 12923 -3.3 43
Flim 4265 0.254 12319 -7.8 75
SSB2026=Blim 6893 0.45 10313 -23 183
SSB2026=Bpa 1553 0.086 14439 8.1 -36
SSB2026=MSYBtrigger 1553 0.086 14439 8.1 -36
F=F2024 2082 0.117 14022 5 -14.4
SSB2026=SSB2025 2928 0.168 13358 0 20




Symbol Footnotes
* Includes commercial catch and recreational removals (taking mortality of released fish into account, estimated at approximately 5%).
** SSB 2026 relative to SSB 2025.
*** Advice value for 2025 relative to the advice value for 2024 (2432tonnes).
^ MAP multiannual plan (EU, 2019).