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Local fishermen's association calls for review panel to assess scientific catch advice


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SHETLAND Fishermen’s Association (SFA) has joined forces with the Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association (SWFPA) to urge Scotland’s ministers to create a special panel to review stock assessments after “wild swings” in catch advice in recent years. 
They are advocating the establishment of a body equivalent to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee to evaluate recommendations from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
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The two associations argue that insufficient consideration is taken of the often “shaky foundations” on which ICES stock assessments are made, with most derived from computer models and complex mathematical algorithms based on “highly simplistic assumptions”. ....

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Fishing chiefs seek new panel to weigh up scientists' advice on Scottish stocks


Updated: May 25, 2021, 11:02 am
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Scotland’s two largest fishing associations are urging Scottish ministers to create a special panel to review stock assessments after wild swings in catch advice in recent years.
SWFPA and SFA say Ices’ assessments have “shaky foundations”, with most derived from computer models and complex mathematical algorithms based on “highly simplistic assumptions”.
They cite the example of north-east Atlantic mackerel advice, which swung from a total catch limit of 857,000 tonnes in 2017 to 318,000t in 2018 and then back up to 922,000t in 2019, after Ices reviewed its modelling and adjusted its algorithms. ....

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