DATASET

The Mediterranean and Black Sea STECF Stock Assessment Database - SAMBS

Collection: FAD : Fisheries and Aquaculture data 

Description

The stock assessment process starts with the specific request of Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) (https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/maritime-affairs-and-fisheries_en) through a list of Terms of Reference (ToRs) given to STECF. TORs can indicate the priorities of assessment or can make specific questions of explorative or methodological nature. According to these needs, a group of independent experts are invited to attend a so called Expert Working Group (EWG). During an EWG exclusively dedicated to perform stock assessments, between 15 and 20 assessments are performed. Each stock assessment typically covers one species in one GSA, which is the most used definition of stock. However, for some species, based on biological evidence, one stock covers several GSAs for which, assessments are performed across all GSAs. The results of all the assessments performed are presented to STECF plenary meetings, where difficulties, limitations and problems on data and/or assessments are described and discussed. According to this, some of the assessments might be not accepted, whereas those accepted will serve as basis of advice and published as so in the final report.

Contact

Email
jrc-stecf-secretariat (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

Mannini, Alessandro; Pinto, Cecilia; Osio, Giacomo Chato; Gibin, Maurizio (2017): The Mediterranean and Black Sea STECF Stock Assessment Database - SAMBS. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/636f0284-a69a-4f43-8c53-d9d7b3a30d8f

Data access

STECF Stock Assessment Database for the Mediterranean and Black Sea - download
URL 
STECF Stock Assessment Database for the Mediterranean and Black Sea - dashboard
URL 
  • An online dashboard to visualise and download the STECF Stock Assessment in the Mediterannean and Black Sea

Publications

Publication 2018
The Mediterranean and Black Sea STECF Stock Assessment Database
Osio, C., Gibin, M., Mannini, A., Villamor, A. and Orio, A., The Mediterranean and Black Sea STECF Stock Assessment Database, EUR 29294 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018, ISBN 978-92-79-88954-7, doi:10.2760/559579, JRC112485.
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Publication page 
  • Abstract

    Since 2007, the Scientific Technical Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), for which Joint Research Centre (JRC) runs the Secretariat and all the data collection process, started collecting and organizing information on Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries, and since 2009 performing standardized stock assessments on these fisheries during STECF expert working groups (EWGs). The stock assessment results have been documented in more than 30 reports STECF EWGs (https://stecf.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/medbs). Stock assessments performed during the STECF EWGs employ different approaches and tools, however, models implemented in the Fisheries Libraries in R (FLR, http://www.flr-project.org) were the most used. After almost 10 years of stock assessments in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, JRC extracted available stock assessment data from digital repositories of EWGs and compiled a STECF reference database. From each assessment contained in the STECF reports yearly time series of stock variables such as:Total Catch (total weight of all fish in the stock), Recruitment (total number of individuals entering yearly in the population), Spawning Stock Biomass (total weight of all sexually mature fish in the stock) and Fishing Mortality were extracted. The assessments data are made available through an online interactive dashboard under the STECF Data dissemination web page (https://stecf.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dd/medbs/ram) that allow readers to compare and contrast several stock assessments variables. Each stock assessment is linked via an URL to the original source of the stock assessment. According to EU CFP - Common Fisheries Policy (Reg. EU 1380/2013 and Reg. EU812/2015) all EU commercial fish stocks should be fished at a maximum sustainable yield (Fmsy). Biological reference points, Fref (Fmsy or a proxy as F 0.1 ) and were subsequently used to assess if the level of exploitation (F/Fmsy) is in line with the CFP objectives (F/Fmsy≤1) or not (F/Fmsy >1). The STECF database is the reference database for the computation of the Common Fisheries Policy monitoring indicators for the Mediterranean and Black Sea (https://stecf.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/43805/2092142/STECF+18-01+adhoc+-+CFP+Monitoring+2018.pdf) To ensure traceability and foster reproducible scientific research, all the data, code and references part of the compilation process are hosted on GitHub, a well-known version control software platform. The target audience of the dashboard ranges from governments, fisheries institutes, stakeholders, NGO’s and common citizens that want to check the status of marine fisheries resources evaluated. A copy of the Mediterranean and Black Sea STECF stock assessment results will be included, for the first time, in the next release of the RAM legacy database: a voluntary contributed worldwide stock assessments database, RAM legacy, (http://ramlegacy.org/). The RAM Legacy database includes fish stock assessments from all around the world’s oceans, and provides a unique source of information to make comparisons between fisheries and to perform global analysis of stock status.

Spatial coverage

Type Value
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GML
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WKT
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Temporal coverage

From date To date
2016-01-01 N/A

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2019-04-16
Modified date
2024-02-21
Issued date
2017-01-01
Landing page
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/mediterranean-and-black-sea-stecf-stock-assessment-database 
Data theme(s)
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food
Update frequency
annual
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/636f0284-a69a-4f43-8c53-d9d7b3a30d8f
Popularity