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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
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
18975
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25019183.v1
Status:
valid
Advice Component
Advice Category
*
FMSYranges
MP
MSY
NoAdv
Other
PA
Advice Type
*
Catches
Effort
FishMort
Landings
NoAd
NoFish
Advice Unit
*
t
ratio
%
AdviceValue
*
Advice Value Lower Range
Advice Value Upper Range
Wanted Catch
Wanted Catch Lower Range
Wanted Catch Upper Range
Advice Sentence
*
ICES advises that when the MSY approach is applied, total removals in 2025 should be no more than 2776 tonnes. ICES notes the existence of a precautionary management plan, developed and adopted by one of the relevant management authorities for this stock.
Advice Released Date
*
Advice Applicable From
*
Advice Applicable Until
*
TAF Link
Management Alignment
Full
Multiple
Other
Partial
MP WebLink
Management Plan Ownership
Link To Evaluation
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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).