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 (Assessment Component)
bss.27.4bc7ad-h
Assessment Year
2025
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
20911
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.27202527






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total removals*
Commercial landings**
Recreational kept**
Commercial discards**
Recreational dead released**
Survival recreational released**
Fages 4–15 total removals (2026)
Fages 4–15
Fages 4–15
SSB (2027)
% SSB change^
% advice change^^
2026 2026 2026 2026 2026 2026 2026 2026 2026 2027 2027 2026
(t) (t) (t) (t) (t) (t) (ratio) (ratio) (ratio) (t) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
MSY approach: F = FMSY 5180 1738 2186 994 262 5246 0.17 0.055 0.041 23154 -8.6 98
Other scenarios
F = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27544 8.7 -100
EU MAP#: FMSY 5180 1738 2186 994 262 5246 0.17 0.055 0.041 23154 -8.6 98
EU MAP#: FMSYlower 4472 1500 1888 858 227 4530 0.145 0.047 0.035 23751 -6.2 71
EU MAP#: FMSYupper 5180 1738 2186 994 262 5246 0.17 0.055 0.041 23154 -8.6 98
F = Fpa 5180 1738 2186 994 262 5246 0.17 0.055 0.041 23154 -8.6 98
SSB2027 = Blim 14250 4781 6013 2733 722 14432 0.56 0.18 0.135 15666 -38 440
SSB2027 = MSYBtrigger = Bpa 9757 3274 4118 1872 494 9883 0.35 0.112 0.084 19338 -24 270
SSB2027 = SSB2026 2603 873 1098 499 132 2636 0.082 0.026 0.0199 25330 0 -0.66
F = F2025 3271 1098 1380 627 166 3313 0.104 0.034 0.025 24764 -2.2 25
Total removals advice (2026) = total removals advice (2025) 2620 879 1105 503 133 2653 0.081 0.026 0.0196 25328 0 0




Symbol Footnotes
* Includes commercial landings, recreational kept, commercial discards and recreational dead released computed assuming 5% post-release mortality.
** Assumed projections based on recent proportions of commercial landings and recreational removals.
# EU multiannual plan (MAP) (EU, 2019).
## All catch options for sea bass caught in divisions 4.b–c, 7.a, and 7.d–h assume that total removals for sea bass in divisions 8.a–b follow the MSY approach.
### ICES cannot advise on measures to achieve non-zero catches in the area with F=0 for the stock.
^ SSB 2027 relative to SSB 2026.
^^ Advice value for 2026 relative to the advice value for 2025 for Sea bass in divisions 4.b–c, 7.a, and 7.d–h stock (2620 tonnes).
^^^ Advice value for 2026 relative to the advice value for 2025 for Sea bass caught in divisions 4.b–c, 7.a, and 7.d–h (2620 tonnes).