News
Events
Calendar
Library
SharePoint Login
Admin
About ICES
Who we are
How we work
Global cooperation
Project collaborations
ICES Awards
Jobs at ICES
Science
Expert groups
Science priorities
Publications
Data
Dataset Collections
Data Portals
Data Tools
Assessment Tools
Maps
Vocabularies
Guidelines and Policy
Advice
Latest advice
Ecosystem overviews
Fisheries overviews
ICES ecosystems and advisory areas
Join us
Why join us
Join our expert groups
Become an observer
Join our advisory process
Dataset Collections
Data Portals
Data Tools
Assessment Tools
Maps
Vocabularies
Guidelines and Policy
Advice and Scenarios Database
Print it
Send to
Share it
Advicelist
View Advice
Megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.) in Division 6.b (Rockall)
StockCode
lez.27.6b
Assessment Year
2024
Stock Category
2
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
19215
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25019327.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 maximum sustainable yield (MSY) approach is applied, catches in 2025 should be no more than 1 192 tonnes. ICES notes the existence of a precautionary management plan, developed and adopted by one of the relevant management authorities for this stock. Management should be implemented at the stock level.
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
Inquiries or Comments?
Email:
Message:
Catch scenarios
Basis
Total Catch
F/Fmsy
B/Bmsy
% B change**
% advice change***
2025
2025
2026
2026
2025
(t)
(ratio)
(ratio)
(%)
(%)
ICES Basis Advice
MSY approach (35th percentile of predicted catch distribution under F = FMSY)
1192
0.91
1.41
-6.9
6.9
Other scenarios
FMSY
1305
1
1.39
-8.4
17
F2023
493
0.36
1.55
2.1
-56
F=0
0
0
1.65
8.5
-100
Symbol
Footnotes
*
Calculations were done with unrounded inputs, and computed values may not match exactly when calculated using the rounded figures in the table.
**
Biomass 2026 relative to biomass 2025.
***
Advice value for 2025 relative to the advice value for 2024 (1115tonnes).