Fisheries Area Closures (Juvenile & Real Time)
Summary
This dataset provides the spatial extent of Real time closures (RTC) and Juvenile closures from April 2010 to December 2016. The purpose of RTCs was to ensure sufficient efforts were made to reduce cod mortality. Closures were selected from those areas with the highest cod catch rate (per hour), based on data from historical landings per unit effort (LPUE) over the previous 4 years.
In September 2009 the European Community and Norway agreed to implement an RTC scheme in the North Sea and Skagerrak for the protection of juvenile cod, haddock, whiting and saithe. The Juvenile closures scheme is independent of the UK RTC scheme in place for cod. Incursions are enforced directly through the European legislation (Commission Regulation 724 2009). For the purposes of completeness the Juvenile closures have been included in this dataset. Juvenile closures are still in place. There will be no Real time closures in 2017, however an improved scheme may be introduced at a later date.
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Use limitation statement
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Licence
Open Government LicenceAttribution statement
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Technical information
Update frequency
asNeeded
Lineage
UK Fishing vessels fishing in the North Sea are subject to the Cod Recovery Zone (CRZ). The number of days vessels are able to fish in the CRZ is limited by the EU. The UK gains extra days by showing they have a Real Time Closure scheme (RTC) that reduces Cod mortality. The RTC scheme was created in 2008. A condition of the fishing licence is that the vessels must have a CRZ permit to be present in the CRZ, to keep a permit vessels must abide by the scheme rules - of which not fishing in RTCs is an element. Therefore vessels that are found to have fished in an RTC may be liable for criminal prosecution by fishing without the authority of a licence.
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
- Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
8942f60c-de73-4112-a68a-a96666a129d2
Published by
Marine Management Organisation
Contact publisher
data@marinemanagement.org.ukDataset reference dates
Creation date
28 June 2013
Revision date
13 July 2013
Publication date
N/A
Period
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