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
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
19277
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.27222843






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total removals *
Ftotal
SSB
% SSB change**
% advice change***
2025 2025 2026 2026 2026
(t) (ratio) (t) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
MSY approach: F = FMSY × SSB2025/MSY Btrigger 2620 0.159 12450 -7.2 7.7
Other scenarios
EU MAP^: FMSY×SSB2025/MSYBtrigger 2620 0.159 12450 -7.2 7.7
EU MAP^: FMSYlower×SSB2025/MSYBtrigger 2200 0.132 12801 -4.6 -9.5
EU MAP^: FMSYupper×SSB2025/MSYBtrigger 2620 0.159 12450 -8.3 7.7
F=FMSYlower 2357 0.142 12670 -5.5 -3.1
F=FMSY 2804 0.1713 12297 -8.3 15.3
F=FMSY upper 2804 0.1713 12297 -8.3 15.3
F=0 0 0 14653 9.2 -100
Fpa 3273 0.203 11906 -11.2 35
Flim 3998 0.254 11306 -15.7 64
SSB2026=Blim 5205 0.345 10313 -23 114
SSB2026=Bpa 253 0.0143 14439 7.6 -90
SSB2026=MSYBtrigger 253 0.0143 14439 7.6 -90
F=F2024 1936 0.115 13022 -2.9 -20
SSB2026=SSB2025 1469 0.086 13418 0 -40




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).