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Brill (Scophthalmus rhombus) in Subarea 4 and divisions 3.a and 7.d-e (North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat, English Channel)
StockCode (Assessment Component)
bll.27.3a47de
Assessment Year
2025
Stock Category
2
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
19463
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.27202521.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 2026 should be no more than 3 086 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
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Partial
MP WebLink
Management Plan Ownership
Link To Evaluation
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Catch scenarios
Basis
Total catch*
Projected landings
Projected discards**
Fishing mortality F2026/FMSY
Stock size B2027/BMSY
% B/BMSY change ***
% total allowable catch (TAC) change^
% advice change^^
2026
2026
2026
2026
2027
2027
2026
2026
(t)
(t)
(t)
(ratio)
(ratio)
(%)
(%)
(%)
ICES Basis Advice
Maximum sustainable yield (MSY) approach (35th percentile of predicted catch distribution under F = FMSY)
3086
2950
136
0.92
1.36
-13
3.9
3.9
Other scenarios
FMSY
3314
3168
146
1
1.33
-15.5
11.6
11.6
F=F2025
1390
1329
61
0.39
1.57
2.4
-53
-53
F=0
0
0
0
0
1.74
12
-100
-100
Symbol
Footnotes
*
Based on the average discard rate.
**
Including below minimum size (BMS) landings, assuming recent discard rate.
***
B/BMSY 2027 relative to B/BMSY 2026.
^
Total advised catch in 2026 relative to the EU–UK agreed catch limit approach for 2025 (2970 tonnes). This limit reflects the sum of the EU–UK agreed TACs in 2025 (2953 tonnes), divided by 0.9945 to account for a 0.55% deduction for third-country catches, following the method for projecting third-country catches (EU–UK Joint Committee, 2023).
^^
Advice value for 2026 relative to the advice value for 2025 (2970tonnes).