Taking stock: are TACs set to achieve MSY?

The report evaluates EU progress toward ending overfishing by 2020, finding that more than half of the assessed TACs for 2019 still exceeded scientific advice. It highlights inconsistent adherence to advice for data-limited stocks and identifies several Member States that pushed for unsustainable catch limits.

• Progress in aligning Total Allowable Catches (TACs) with scientific advice since 2015 has been very limited, with over 50% of the assessed TACs for 2019 still exceeding that advice.
• The EU Commission and Council have shown less consistency in following scientific advice for stocks with limited data that require precautionary advice, despite the requirement that MSY objectives apply to all harvested stocks.
• While France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgium, and Denmark were more vocal in requesting TACs above scientific advice during 2016-2018 Council processes, all mentioned Member States—including the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden—received shares of TACs that exceeded scientific advice.

APA

ClientEarth (2020). Taking stock: are TACs set to achieve MSY? https://www.clientearth.org/latest/documents/taking-stock-are-tacs-set-to-achieve-msy/

Chicago

ClientEarth. Taking stock: are TACs set to achieve MSY? 2020. https://www.clientearth.org/latest/documents/taking-stock-are-tacs-set-to-achieve-msy/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{clientearth2020taking, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{Taking stock: are TACs set to achieve MSY?}}, institution = {ClientEarth}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/latest/documents/taking-stock-are-tacs-set-to-achieve-msy/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }