1. The Failure of the Common Fisheries Policy
Rainer Froese
Pew Fellows Meeting
Sebasco, Maine, USA

2. International Agreements
Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1985
FAO Code of Conduct 1995
Ask for depleted stocks to be rebuilt to the “biomass that can produce maximum sustainable yields” Bmsy
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation 2002 gives this the target of 2015

3. Reaction of the European Commission (DG Mare)
In 1996, in explicit response to UNCLOS and Code of Conduct, DG Mare asked ICES to provide reference points for a safe zone which would prevent the collapse of stocks.
It did not ask for reference points to Bmsy
ICES provided Blim and Bpa

4. The EC Reference Points
Blim is the biomass below which recruitment is reduced
Bpa is a ‘precautionary’ biomass above Blim

5. North Sea Cod

6. North Sea Cod

7. North Sea Cod

8. Status of European Stocks

9. Biomass Trends

10. Management

11. Time to Recovery (no fishing)

12. Conclusions
The bad status of European stocks is caused by bad management
Bmsy is no target and not known to managers
Most stocks will not be able to recover by 2015
Europe will miss the deadline by more than 30 years