Advice and Scenarios Database



Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) in Division 7.a (Irish Sea)
StockCode (Assessment Component)
ple.27.7a
Assessment Year
2026
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
22655






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total catch
Projected landings
Projected Surviving discards
Projected dead discards
Total projected discards*
Ftotal
Fprojected landings
Fprojected discards**
Spawing-stock biomass (SSB)
% SSB change***
% advice change^
Probability of SSB lt Blim (%) ^^^
2027 2027 2027 2027 2027 2027 2027 2027 2028 2028 2027 2028
(t) (t) (t) (t) (t) (ratio) (ratio) (ratio) (t) (%) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
Maximum sustainable yield (MSY) approach: F=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3999 25 -100 48
Other scenarios
FMSY × SSB2027/MSY Btrigger 316 55 104 157 261 0.072 0.0121 0.06 3806 18.6 -48 57
FMSY 818 143 270 405 675 0.196 0.033 0.163 3497 9 33 70
FMSY lower × SSB2027/MSYBtrigger 217 38 72 107 179 0.049 0.0082 0.041 3866 20 -65 54
FMSY upper × SSB2027/MSY Btrigger 465 82 153 230 384 0.107 0.018 0.089 3708 15.6 -24 61
F = FMSY lower 570 100 188 282 470 0.133 0.022 0.111 3638 13.4 -7.2 64
F = FMSY upper 1173 206 387 581 968 0.29 0.049 0.24 3273 2 91 76
F = FPA 1542 270 509 763 1272 0.4 0.068 0.34 3021 -5.8 151 83
SSB2028=Blim 57 10 19 28 47 0.0127 0.0021 0.0105 3958 23 -91 50
SSB2028=BPA^^
SSB2028 = MSYBtrigger ^^
Rollover advice 614 108 203 304 506 0.144 0.024 0.12 3618 12.8 0 65
F=F2026 1090 191 360 539 899 0.27 0.045 0.22 3320 3.5 78 75
SSB2028 = SSB2027 1261 221 416 624 1040 0.32 0.053 0.26 3209 0 105 78




Symbol Footnotes
* Dead+surviving projected discards.
** Fprojected discards concerns dead projected discards only.
*** SSB 2028 relative to SSB 2027.
^ Advice value for 2027 relative to the advice value for 2026 (614 tonnes). TAC 2026 was equal to the advice value.
^^ These options were left blank because they cannot be achieved in 2028, even with zero catch in 2027.
^^^ The probability of SSB being below Blim in 2028. This probability relates to the short-term probability of SSB lt Blim and is not comparable to the long-term probability of SSB lt Blim tested in simulations when estimating fishing mortality reference points.