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Report of the Fifteenth Session

GFCM Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). Subcommittee on Marine Environment and Ecosystems (SCMEE). Bar, Montenegro, 3-4 February 2014

Year of publication 2014

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 42 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) The fifteenth session of the SAC Subcommittee on Stock Assessment (SCSA) was held in Bar, Montenegro, on 3-4 February 2014, with the main aim to: i) revise the status of the stocks in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, as provided from the Sub-regional Group on Stock Assessment for the Black Sea (SGSABS) (Romania, 14-16 January 2014) and from the two Working Groups on Stock Assessment for small pelagic and demersal species (WGSASP, WGSAD) (Montenegro, 28 January - 1 February 2014), ii) revise the management advice to be proposed to the SAC for those stocks for which the assessment is considered reliable, and iii) revise methodological issues related to stock assessment and management advice. SCSA revised a total of 46 stocks – 30 demersal and 16 small pelagic stocks - providing advice for 39 of them. Overall 7 stocks were found to be sustainably exploited, while all other stocks were found to be under some kind of threat – overexploitation, being overexploited or ecologically unbalanced. In addition to this, SCSA proposed a new framework for describing stock status and providing management advice in relation to reference points to be discussed at the next session of the Scientific Advisory Committee.

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