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DCF ECONOMIC DATA CALL 2013 ON FISH PROCESSING INDUSTRY - Coverage Report
Get PDFThis Data Collection Framework (DCF) coverage report was prepared by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) as part of an Administrative Arrangement with DG MARE. The purpose of the document is to provide an overview of the timeliness and completeness of the Member States data submissions to JRC in response to the call for economic data on fish processing industry concerning 2008-2011 issued by DG MARE under the DCF (Council Regulation No 199/2008). Additionally, the report provides some indication of data quality, summarising major quality issues detected by JRC and the Expert Working Group convened under the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF).JRC.G.3 - Maritime affair
Genetics and genomics for the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union: Expectations, challenges, opportunities and results
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Globally, the natural renewable resource fish plays a major role in satisfying a rising demand for animal protein stemming from a growing middle income group. The provision of fish also helps meeting food as well as nutritional security needs. At the same time, being internationally the most traded food (and feed) commodity, capture and production of fish constitutes an important socio-economic factor. Paving the way for sustainable and profitable wild capture marine fisheries and aquaculture is a challenging policy endeavour. Both activities rely on the health of a complex and vulnerable ecosystem that is hardly understood. Also fisheries and aquaculture are embedded in a complex social and economic environment, compete with other activities and depend highly on global trade patterns. In the European Union, its 28 Member States have decided to commonly manage and regulate the exploitation of the natural renewable resource fish through a set of rules that gives all European fishing fleets equal access to EU waters and fishing grounds. It is now generally accepted that a shift towards a sustainable and profitable exploitation of marine resources requires the integration of knowledge derived various sources, a notion also reflected in recent marine policy frameworks in many parts of the world. Here, the rapid progress in the field of genetics and genomics offers major opportunities to strongly support marine resource management, particularly when integrated with other approaches. This perspective discusses the current status of the application of genetic and genomic approaches for fisheries and aquaculture management with emphasis on the European Union (EU) Common Fisheries Policy. Needs emerging from this major EU policy that might be addressed with genomic approaches will be depicted. Moreover a selection of examples illustrates value and successes, but also specific challenges and pitfalls.JRC.D.2 - Water and Marine Resource
DCF Fishing Effort Regimes Data Call 2013: Coverage Report
Get PDFThe purpose of this report is to evaluate the data submitted by the Member States in response to the official data call on Fishing Effort Regimes as released by DG MARE. The data submitted to JRC were used by the Scientific, Economic and Technical Committee for Fisheries (STECF) and the experts on the Expert Working Groups (EWGs) 13-06 and 13-13 in order to produce two reports on Evaluation of Fishing Effort Regimes in European Waters.
The data was requested under the framework of the Data Collection Regulation (DCR); cf. Council regulation (European Commission (EC) No 199/2008 of 25th February 2008). However, the definitions of this data call can be considered in excess of the DCF provisions in agreement with Member States to cover the needs for management advice apropriately.JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
Deterring Illegal Activities in the Fisheries Sector - Genetics, Genomics, Chemistry and Forensics to Fight IUU Fishing and in Support of Fish Product Traceability
Get PDFMarine fish are a precious natural resource and their exploitation for nutrition and income is deeply embedded in human culture. However, massive fi shing activity, both legal and illegal, has had dramatic impacts, and poses a threat to the future of the fi sheries sector. Virtually 70% of the world’s fish stocks are fully exploited, overexploited or in a state of collapse. European waters are not exempt, with almost 90% of fi sh stocks being overexploited.
IUU fi shing (Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing) is vastly contributing to this situation. In 2010, the value of IUU fi shing amounted to 10-20 billion Euros annually, with at least 1.1 billion Euros worth of illegal fish being imported into the European Union every year. Furthermore, fraud along the supply chain with fish products sold under false labels, such as low-cost catfish as valuable sole or cod fillets, poses additional challenges. These illegal activities have severe adverse effects, as they undermine stainable fisheries, cause destruction of marine ecosystems, obstruct socioeconomic development, and impede consumer information and protection.
A number of nations have developed strategies to deter and fi ght illegal fishing activities, and numerous countries have adopted the International Plan of Action to prevent, deter and eliminate IUU Fishing (IPOAIUU), that has been developed in 2001 within the framework of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries by the FAO. The European Union has recently taken further initiatives and developped two major and complementing legal instruments: in January 2010, Council regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 (1), - the ‘IUU
regulation’, entered into force, and in November 2009, Council regulation (EC) No 1224/2009[1] (2) - the new
Control regulation- establishing a Community control system was adopted and is in the process of being implemented.
Both regulations place emphasis on detailed catch documentation and traceability for fishery products ‘from ocean to fork’, that is, covering all stages of the supply chain from catch, to landing, transport, processing, and the markets. Traceability is generally acknowledged as being a highly powerful tool in support of monitoring, control and enforcement in the fisheries sector. However, currently it is mainly based on certifi cates accompanying goods, and labelling of products, both measures which are
vulnerable to falsification.
So how can inspectors and control and enforcement authorities validate and authenticate the information
provided by documentation? How can the industry assure that the fi sh it is processing and selling is what it
is supposed to be, e.g. the correct species and fi shed legally? And fi nally how can the consumer be certain
that the information provided for fi sh products is correct?
A system is needed to effectively trace fi sh products throughout the food supply chain that is supported
by independent control measures. Likewise control and enforcement authorities need effi cient analytical
tools for generating evidence in court trials. Molecular techniques based on genetics, genomics and
chemistry, and embedded in a forensic framework, have great potential in this respect.
This JRC report describes available molecular techniques and technologies and discusses how these can
be used for traceability and in support of fi sheries control and enforcement. The report provides examples
of cases where molecular techniques were employed to reveal fi sheries fraud and to generate evidence in
court cases. These examples clearly demonstrate the feasibility and operational potential of the techniques
in real-world contexts. Furthermore, the report explores possibilities for translating forensic genetics and
chemistry into a European fi sheries control and enforcement framework, within the context of the current EU policies and legislation.JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
DCF Data Call Coverage Report for the Mediterranean and Black Sea in 2013
Get PDFDG Mare called the DCF Data from Member States in the Mediterranean and Black Sea on 09 April 2013, defining the deadline of 3 June 2013 for data submissions from member states, under the Community Framework of Data Collection Regulation (DCR) (Council Regulation (EC) № 199/2008 of 25th February 2008). A second deadline specific for the Black Sea was established on 13 September 2013. The data call also defined a third deadline 3rd December 2013 for the submission of trawl and hydro acoustic surveys data for Mediterranean MS. The data call and its format are documented on the JRC’s DCF website: http://datacollection.jrc.ec.europa.eu/data-calls.JRC.G.3 - Maritime affair
2013 DCF Call for Economic Data on the EU Fishing Fleet: COVERAGE REPORT
Get PDFThe present document reports on the coverage and timeliness of the data submitted by the Member States during the 2013 call on fleet economic data, issued under the Data Collection Framework (DCF; (EC) No. 665/2008; Reference: MARE/A3/AC (2013)). This report does not evaluate the 2013 DCF data submitted by Member States against MS data requirements concerning their national programmes nor does it consider any derogation of MS data collection national programmes.
Reporting requirements for Member States continued from last year’s call as data pertaining to DCF years (from 2008 onwards) were requested. Member States were able to resubmit revised/corrected data relating to previous years (2008-2010). Hence, figures for the years 2008 to 2010 in the current Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet (published in September 2013) may not necessarily correspond to figures presented in the 2012 AER.JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
JRC Scientific and Policy Reports: DCF Fishing Effort Regimes Data Call 2012 - Coverage Report
No full textThe Data Collection Framework (DCF) coverage is part of a JRC Administrative Arrangement with DG MARE. The document provides an overview of the timeliness and completeness of Member States’ data submissions to JRC in response to the 2012 data call on Fishing Effort Regimes concerning 2011 data issued by DG MARE under the DCF (Council Regulation No 199/2008). Additionally, the report provides some indication of data quality, summarising major quality issues detected by the two Expert Working Groups convened under the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) with the assistance of JRC experts.JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
DCF ECONOMIC DATA CALL 2012 - Coverage Report
Get PDFThis Data Collection Framework (DCF) coverage report was prepared by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) as part of an Administrative Arrangement
with DG MARE. The purpose of the document is to provide an overview of the timeliness and completeness of the Member States data submissions
to JRC in response to the call for fleet economic scientific data concerning 2008-2012 issued by DG MARE under the DCF (Council Regulation No
199/2008). Additionally, the report provides some indication of data quality, summarising major quality issues detected by JRC and the two Expert
Working Groups convened under the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF).JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
DCF Data Call Coverage Report for the Mediterranean Sea in 2012
Get PDFDG MARE called the DCF Data from Member States in the Mediterranean and Black Sea on 12 April 2012, defining the deadline of 18 June 2012 for data submissions from Member States, under the Community Framework of Data Collection Regulation (DCR) (Council Regulation (EC) № 199/2008 of 25th February 2008). The data call also defined a second deadline 3rd December 2012 for the submission of trawl and hydro acoustic surveys data. The data call and its format are documented on the JRC’s DCF website: http://datacollection.jrc.ec.europa.eu/data-calls.
The DCF data submitted by national correspondents are duly evaluated in the present coverage report by JRC DCF team as part of an Administrative Arrangement with DG MARE. The report provides a detailed review of the timeliness, completeness and quality of data submissions by Member State.JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
DCF Data Call Coverage Report for the Black Sea in 2012
Get PDFThis Data Collection Framework (DCF) coverage report was prepared by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) as part of an Administrative
Arrangement with DG MARE. The present report provides an overview of the timeliness and completeness of the Member States data
submissions to JRC in response to the 2012 call for Black Sea fisheries data issued by DG MARE under the DCF (Council Regulation No
199/2008).JRC.G.4 - Maritime affair
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