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Fisheries Management Plan Lampuki FAD Fishery

Table of Contents

List of figuresii

List of tablesii

Abbreviationsii

1 Introduction

2 The Common Fisheries Policy and the Mediterranean Sea 3 The Maltese fisheries: 3.1 The 25 nautical mile Fisheries Management Zone

3.2 The Maltese commercial fishing fleet 3.3 Recreational fisheries 4 Fisheries covered by the multi-annual national management

5 Fisheries covered by the multi-annual national management 6 Description of the fishery 7 Maltese management plan for the lampuki FAD fishery

7.1 Objectives 7.2 Status of the stocks 7.3 Potential management tools

7.3.1 List of possible management tools 7.4 Assessment of the socio-economic impact of the potential management measures 7.4.1 Estimate of production and fishing effort

7.4.2 Projected price trends 7.4.3 Projected income streams 7.4.4 Supporting workings with respect to loss of estimates

7.4.5 Carbon footprint of capture fisheries 7.4.6 Projected results – lampuki 7.5 Selection of best management tools

7.6 Implementation of management measures 7.7 Review of management measures Conclusion

Annex 1 - Lampuki FAD Fishery

Description of the fishery 1.1 General description 1.2 The Lampuki Net

Maltese Fleet Structure and Capacity Fishing effort data 3.2 Trends in Total Effort

3.3 Trends in Monthly Effort Biological characteristics of the main species caught Conservation Status of the Stock

5.1 Trends in Regional Catches 5.2 Trends in Maltese Catches 5.3 Catch per Unit Effort

5.4 Population State Indicators from Maltese Data Impact on By-Catch Species and the Environment 6.2 By-catch species

6.3 Environmental Impacts Ongoing Research Socio-economic characteristics of the fishery

References of figures

Figure 1 Declining growth rate of fish production

Figure 2 Landings in Metric Tonnes under each scenario Figure 3 Income in 2017 under each scenario Figure 4 Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) typically used in the Maltese Islands (adapted from [10]).

Figure 5 Diagram of a Lampuki net [11]. Figure 6 Temporal variation in nominal fishing effort, expressed in terms of number of FADs fished * number of fishing trips by the lampuki FAD fishing fleet in 2006-2011, with fitted regression line. Figure 7 Mean monthly fishing effort (+/- 1 SD) for the lampuki FAD fishing fleet in 2006-2011; units are effort as number of FADs fished * number of fishing trips.

Figure 8 Evolution of total lampuki landings from the Mediterranean in the period 1970-2010 (GFCM Capture Production 1970-2010). Figure 9 Evolution of lampuki landings by different Mediterranean countries in the period 1970-2010 (GFCM Capture Production Figure 10 C. hippurus landings in the Maltese Islands since 1954 Maltese data).

Figure 11 Mean monthly landings (+/- 1 SD) for the lampuki FAD in 2006-2011. Figure 12 Catch per unit effort (as t/number of FADs fished * fishing trips) for lampuki (C. hippurus) estimated for FAD fishery during the period 2006-2011, with fitted line. -1 -1 Figure 13 Density map of average CPUE in kg day FAD of the 2009 fishing season (August – December) [46].

Figure 14 Mean C. hippurus landings per transect per season (kg/transect/ season) for each district in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 seasons; error bars show 95% confidence intervals [46]. Figure 15 Length frequency distributions of FAD lampuki (C. catches in by the 6-12 m and 12-18 m vessel length fleet the Maltese Islands. Figure 16 Average monthly length frequency distribution of C. recorded in the Maltese Islands in 2009-2011; fork length composition of catches increases rapidly over the fishing result of the high growth rates of this species.

Figure 17 Minimum size of lampuki (C. hippurus) caught by the 12-18 m fleet segments in the Maltese Islands Figure 18 Maximum size of lampuki (C. hippurus) caught by the 12-18 m fleet segments in the Maltese Islands Figure 19 Average size of lampuki (C. hippurus) caught by the 18 m fleet segments in the Maltese Islands.

Figure 20 Age in days against fork length (cm), for market samples (C. hippurus) caught in the Maltese islands in 2005-2010.

List of tables

Table 1 Objectives, indicators and targets for the lampuki fishery management plan

Table 2 Price elasticity co-efficient for some of the species targeted Table 3 Profitability estimate per vessel Table 4 Assumptions made in the scenario analysis

Table 5 Economic net present value of all scenarios compared Table 6 2006-2011 fleet capacity data for the vessels licensed lampuki (C. hippurus) using FADs Table 7 Characteristics of vessels licensed to participate in the (C. hippurus) fishery.

Table 8 Species distribution of main species caught when fishing lampuki using FADs 9 Maximum age, maturity and spawning season of main species caught when fishing for lampuki using FADs.

10 Average percentage contribution of lampuki landings by country from the 1970s onwards (GFCM Capture Production 1970-2010). 11 Mean sagitta age (days), mean lapillus age (days) and mean fork length (cm) for market samples of lampuki (C. hippurus) caught in the Maltese islands in 2005-2010. 12 Values for the economic variables and indicators for the vessels licensed to fish for lampuki (C. hippurus) using FADs.

Abbreviations

CPUE Catch per Unit Effort

ENPV Economic Net Present Value Food and Agriculture Organisation Fish Aggregating Device

Fisheries Management Zone OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development STECF Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF)

Introduction

Maltese archipelago lies more or less at the centre of the Mediterranean, km south of Sicily and 288 km north of Africa in a maritime area largely characterised by international waters.

is geographically the smallest EU Member State and its coastline * amounts to around 0.8% of the total EU coastline .

Maltese fleet is predominantly small-scale with a rich and extensive † artisanal portfolio. It accounts for around 0.03% of the total EU catch .

Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) that because most of the resources are shared with other countries, the current status of stocks depends little on the activity of the Maltese fleet. The STECF concludes that this fact creates many problems for identifying actions the Management Plan can carry out unilaterally.

Malta’s geographic position and size, the scale of its fishery, and the scale of fishery, the spatial distribution of exploited stocks and fishing grounds on Croatia Eurostat data shared with neighbouring EU and non EU countries, severely scope of any unilateral conservation effort and de-facto limit the of Article 19 of Council Regulation 1967/2006.

2 The Common Fisheries Policy and the Mediterranean

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) sets out the main managing the fisheries sector in the EU. Because of the characteristics Mediterranean fishery, EU catch limits or quotas are not applicable, exception of limits on bluefin tuna that have been introduced recommendations by the International Commission on Conservation Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT). Apart from the general absence of catch other respects, the region is subject to a range of EU wide measures, including requirements relating to the EU vessel register, monitoring and control arrangements, and data collection measures.

The core of EU Mediterranean fisheries management measures EU Council Regulation (EC) 1967/2006 concerning management for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Article 19 of the said regulation, together with Council Regulation 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation resources under the Common Fisheries Policy, form the legal the implementation of management plans.

3 The Maltese fisheries:

3.1 The 25 nautical mile Fisheries Management Zone (25NM

The provisions related to the 25 nautical mile management FMZ) around Malta are outlined in Article 26 of the Council Regulation