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This dissemination and exploitation plan describes the FarFish project partners’ strategies and actions for the exploitation, dissemination and communication of the project results. The plan was first published in month six of the project and has since then been regularly revised and updated throughout the project lifetime. This document is the fourth and final version of the dissemination and exploitation plan. The FarFish consortium has disseminated and communicated the results and recommendations obtained from the project’s work to all relevant parties, including FarFish partners, stakeholders and the general public. The use of efficient and productive internal and external communication, actions, tools and participative events has ensured that all target groups have been reached, to the extent possible. The plan described within this document entails how new knowledge and tools created within FarFish have been exploited and disseminated, and reports on actions taken in the project timeline including; purpose, target groups, methods, vehicles, timing, indicators and success criteria.

A key component of the FarFish project was the development of so-called Management Recommendations (MRs) in the project’s six case studies. The case studies included two high-seas areas and four areas where the EU has negotiated access for its long-distance fleets in Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs). The case studies were in the Southwest Atlantic international waters (FAO area 41), the Southeast Atlantic international waters (FAO area 47, SEAFO Convection Area), The Cape Verde SFPA fishery, the Senegal SFPA fishery, the Mauritania SFPA fishery and the Seychelles SFPA fishery. The concept behind the approach of developing MRs was the idea that stakeholder driven, bottom-up methodologies in development and implementation of fisheries management could be more efficient than the current top-down micromanagement approaches. The concept is based on Results-Based Management (RBM) approaches and had been developed and tested in previous FP7 and H2020 projects (EcoFishMan, MareFrame and ClimeFish). To facilitate uptake and relevance of the approach beyond the FarFish project, the general guidelines for making MRs tailored for the EU fleet operating outside EU waters entered the open process of creating a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA). CEN is the European Committee for Standardization. CEN Workshop Agreements are, by definition, CEN reference documents (although sometimes referred to as low-level standards). By publishing the guidelines as a CWA, the final document needs to be compliant with the rules of CEN and have gone through an open, transparent and inclusive process, as described and provided by CEN. CWAs are valid for 3 years, with possible 3-year extension if requested by committee members. The CWAs are distributed by CEN and apply to rules and regulations of CEN (including IPR rules). In most cases the CWAs remain as reference documents, but in some instances the CWA become basis for ISO standards. The CWA process was initiated on 13 May 2020 with a public announcement on the CEN and FarFish websites, and lasted for 18 months, ending with a consensus meeting held on 25 November2021. After 18-month CWA process that required significant efforts and diplomacy, the authors of this report must admit a defeat in trying to adopt the “Good practice guidelines for developing management recommendations for the EU fleets operating outside European waters” into a CWA. The draft CWA is available in Appendix 2 and is available for anyone that wants to explore further development or application., The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 727891/FarFish project.

The FarFish project facilitated an international final conference in the last month of the project. The aim of the conference was to disseminate key results of the project to the external community and stakeholders interested in the subject. The conference had been planned as a physical event in Brussels but was in the end run as an online event, due to COVID. The conference consisted of 13 presentations and panel discussions. The presentations had been pre-recorded and translated to English, Spanish and French, and the panel discussions were as well translated (live) to the same languages. The conference ran as planned and without any technical difficulties. The attendees were mostly happy with the conference and considered it as a success. The importance of providing translations was highlighted by the non-EU participants, as well as the fact that having the event online allowed a big group of stakeholders to attend. All of the conference proceedings (in all three languages) are available on the FarFish webpage https://www.farfish.eu/farfish-final-conference/ were it will be maintained for at least the next three years., The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 727891/FarFish project.

The FarFish project published a so called “Legacy booklet” towards the end of the project, which is intended to summarise progress and key results to a wider audience e.g. to stakeholders that do not have scientific background or expert knowledge on the main project topics. The publication of this “project summary report aimed at a wider audience” was described in the original project description as follows: Task 7.8 Project summary report aimed at a wider audience: In order to make the project results widely known and understood by everyone with an interest in the subject, the project coordinator will produce a project summary report at the end of the project. The report will describe in layman-terms the project as a whole, the main challenges and the most important results. This will facilitate dissemination to a wider audience, which will be important when considering the wide range of stakeholders connected to the subject. The ”Legacy booklet” is presented in this report, The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 727891/FarFish project.

Training and capacity building are important components of the FarFish project, and one of the project’s products are e-learning courses that are intended to educate stakeholders and scientist in the basics of fisheries management and stock assessment. The courses are made available at www.tutor-web.net. This report provides an overview of the e-learning component of the project, the tutor-web tool and the training activities facilitated by FarFish to promote uptake and use of the tool. The setup and content of the FarFish material available on Tutor-web has previously been reported on in previous FarFish reports but is briefly reviewed in the report to provide insight into why this platform is important and relevant for the FarFish project. The Tutor-web training activities as originally planned included an in-country demonstration giving short local courses in the FarFish case study countries on the use of the tool, leaving expertise on how to teach fisheries management and stock assessments using personalized educational technology. The training activities were intended to constitute a proof of concept where the FarFish experts would travel on-site to the Seychelles to demonstrate the applicability of the solution. This plan was however disrupted by Covid 19, as travel to the Seychelles (or any of the other case study countries) by the European experts was considered irresponsible and unsafe. The proof of concept was as results incorporated into the UNESCO-GRO Fisheries Training Programme, where 28 fellows from 17 countries (including representatives from all of the FarFish case studies) attended. The training demonstrated the relevance of the FarFish Tutor-web component, where the students can learn about the basics of fisheries management and stock assessment with the e-learning materials. The training activity also provided indications that the platform would be used by the fellows to become the teachers and advocates of the Tutor-web platform when returning home. The Tutor-web task within FarFish has in addition delivered three peer-reviewed journal articles, which are briefly discussed in this report.

This report is the final deliverable of work package four (WP4) within the FarFish project. The WP is titled “Development of management recommendations” and has focused on developing so called Management Recommendations (MRs) within the FarFish case studies. The MR concept is based on Results-Based Management (RBM) approaches, with the aim to delegate management responsibilities to resource users. The aim or this reportis to review the RBM process applied in FarFish and the lessons learned in the case studies. The report is in the format of a peer-review journal paper, which is planned to be submitted to a journal shortly. Chapter 2 contains the paper.

Monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) are challenging in wild capture fisheries and insufficient MCS has resulted in unsustainable fishing practices, data limitations in stock assessment and management, lack of transparency and unfair competitive advantage for those not following the rules. Major expenses and efforts are awarded to MCS, but effectiveness and coverage is generally very limited. There are however a number of emerging and already available technological solutions that can be applied to significantly improve MCS and reduce costs at the same time. These solutions are generally referred to as Electronic Monitoring (EM) or Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) solutions. The Nordic countries are generally considered to have well-regulated fisheries and relatively good MCS. The authorities in these countries do however also understand that they need to keep up with new technology and use them when applicable to improve their fisheries. Denmark, Norway and Iceland have for example been awarding increasing attention to REM in recent years. As part of that work, the Nordic Council’s Working Group for Fisheries (AG-Fisk) funded a networking project in 2019 that was to facilitate a conference on REM, where experts in the field would present information on current state and emerging solutions for Fully Documented Fisheries (FDF). The conference was held in November 2019 in Reykjavík and the proceedings along with short summary are presented in this report. The report also contains concluding remarks in the end where the most important issues are summarised, and comments made on developments that have taken place from the time of the conference until the publication of this report. It is evident that EM will not solve all problems when it comes to MCS of fisheries, but such solutions can be important tools to facilitate more efficient MCS and even reduce cost and/or increase coverage. The Nordic countries have not been in the forefront of implementing REM technologies (possibly with the exception of Denmark) where countries such as Canada, US, New Zealand, Australia and Chile have paved the way. The Nordic countries are therefore in the position to learn from those that have gone before them, use what has proven to be successful and avoid making the mistakes they did. Several relevant pilot trials and research projects are currently ongoing in the Nordic countries and on European level. There are also ongoing similar initiatives elsewhere in the world and full implementation of some elements of REM are also taking place. It is important for the Nordic regions to follow and take part in these initiatives, as the authors of this report believe that REM solutions can be extremely effective tools for MCS in the future., Funding: Nordic Council of Ministers – Working Group for Fisheries (AG-fisk) project 186-2019

The Norwegian seafood industry places emphasis on maximising utilisation of its catches and has through strategic improvements significantly increased utilisation in recent years by implementing improvements throughout the entire value chain. There are nevertheless still opportunities for improvements. The Norwegian research institute SINTEF estimates that approximately 120,000 tons of whitefish rest raw materials were discarded or wasted in some other form in 2019. Overwhelming majority of these are contributed to the sea-going fleet, which consists of large freezer trawlers, processing vessels, longliners and wetfish trawlers. These vessels travel long distances to their fishing grounds and challenge to increase utilisation of rest raw materials due to limited freezing capacities, lack of storage space, low value of the rest raw materials and limited human resources. The SUPREME project was initiated in order to address these challenges. The primary objective of the SUPREME project is to increase the resource utilisation and value creation from whitefish rest raw materials from the Norwegian sea-going fleet into valuable ingredients. This report provides an overview of the main findings of task 1.1 in of the project, which focuses on mapping and logistics management of rest raw materials for the Norwegian fishing industry. This report gives a summary of Norwegian fisheries industry, its current use of rest raw materials and identifies potential alternatives for improved utilization. The report also provides benchmarking with the Icelandic seafood industry and presents case studies where concreate examples for improvements are shown. This report is only a first step of many in the SUPREME project, and will feed into other tasks. For further information on the project and its outcome, please visit https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/supreme/, Funding: The research council of Norway (project nr. 970141669)

More than 20% of the European fishing fleets catches are taken from non-European waters. Access to these waters is often based on agreements with coastal states that allow the EU fleet to fish from surplus stocks in return for financial support. These agreements have been subjected to criticism, as these fisheries are sometimes poorly regulated and management decisions are often based on limited knowledge, compliance, and enforcement capabilities. It is also too often the case that trust between stakeholders is lacking. The aim of the FarFish project is to overcome these hurdles. The FarFish project is designed around six case study areas in which the European fleet is actively engaged in fishing activities, including Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal and Seychelles, as well as the international high-seas areas in the southeast and southwest Atlantic. Among the Research & Innovation outputs of the FarFish project is a development of a management approach where the management authorities and the resource users come to an agreement on some key objectives and how to meet them. This approach is designed to reduce micromanagement by involving stakeholders and increase the degree of co-management by delegating management responsibilities to resource users. The process is broken into a number of steps, which include a) the provision of guidelines on how to develop so called management recommendations (MRs), b) provision of an invitation from the authorities to the resource users to develop MRs, where overall objectives are established, c) development of MRs, d) third party audit of the MR, where the success of the MR is evaluated. Draft guidelines and MR invitations have been published, and this report compiles the first proposals for MRs for each of the FarFish case studies. These will then be audited by an independent auditor and the whole process will then be re-iterated. The aim is that by the end of the project, we will have a tested / validated approach for how to manage fisheries in cocreation between authorities and resource users.

This 3rd annual report provides an overview of the overall progress in the FarFish project during its third year from the viewpoint of WP8 (Project management). The report contains details on delivery dates of deliverables and milestones i.e. if they were submitted on time and justifications if not; and if there were any deviations from the project plan regarding content. The report does also review the contribution and use of resources of each partner; and whether it is in line with what was expected in the project plan. Main consortium meetings are discussed. Deviations from original project plan and mitigation measures deployed are as well covered in the report, identifying what has not gone as planned and how that is being addressed by the consortium. The report does also cover specifically each task in WP8, by listing up the purpose of each task and what has been done to carry out the tasks. Meeting minutes from PMG meetings, the 2020 annual meeting and the semi-annual WP & CS leader meeting are attached to this report in Appendices.

Fram til ársins 2008 voru aðeins hrognin hirt af grásleppunni, en hveljunni var fleygt í sjóinn. Grásleppuafli var því mældur í tunnum af hrognum, en opinber aflaskráning var fengin með því að umreikna útflutningsmagn á söltuðum hrognum yfir í afla upp úr sjó, með þar til gerðum nýtingastuðli eða nýtingahlutfalli.Nýtingahlutfallið er fengið með því að reikna hvað mikið magn að grásleppu þurfi til að framleiða eina tunnu með 105 kg af verkuðum hrognum, svokölluð útflutningsþyngd. Á vertíðinni 2009 tóku einstaka sjómenn að landa grásleppunni heilli og þá varð unnt að brúttóvigta þann hluta aflans á hafnarvog. Árið 2012 var lögum svo breytt þannig að skylt varð að landa öllu grásleppuafla og vigta hann á hafnarvog. Fram til 2016 var grásleppu landað ýmist óslægðri, eða slægðri og þá voru hrognin vigtuð sérstaklega. Eftir 2017 lagðist slæging um borð í veiðibát af með öllu og hefur grásleppa eftir það verið unnin að fullu í landi. Áðurnefnt nýtingahlutfall hefur því verið notað til að meta aflamagn upp úr sjó þegar vigtun á hafnarvog hefur ekki verið fyrir að fara. Að undanförnu hefur verið tekist á um hvert sé hið rétta nýtingahlutfall og hvort að ný tækni við vinnslu hrogna hafi áhrif á hlutfallið. Því hefur verið kallað eftir endurskoðun á þessu hlutfalli. Því tóku grásleppusjómenn, verkendur, Hafrannsóknarstofnun og Matís saman höndum í lok vertíðar 2020 til að fá úr þessu skorið. Var þá nýtingahlutfallið mælt, bæði við þar sem núverandi tækni við vinnslu bar beitt, sem og þeirri tækni sem beitt var fyrir 2008. Niðurstaða verkefnisins var sú að nýtingahlutfallið séum 19%, hvort sem um „nýju“ eða „gömlu“ vinnsluaðferðina sé að ræða. Það þurfi 553 kg af afla til að framleiða eina 105 kg tunnu af söltuðum hrognum tilbúnum til útflutnings. Þetta er umtalsverður munur frá 24,7% nýtingahlutfalli sem notað hefur verið til að reikna út afla upp úr sjó fyrir tímabilið 1985-2008. Rétt er að hafa í huga að hér er um að ræða niðurstöður úr tilraun sem framkvæmd var yfir stutt tímabil á afmörkuðu veiðisvæði, og því er ástæða til að fylgja þessari tilraun eftir með sambærilegri athugun sem nær yfir lengra tímabil og fleiri veiðisvæði.

This report is commissioned by Seafish and the Grimsby seafood cluster in the UK with the aim to get and overall understanding of connections and dependencies in ownership of the largest seafood companies in Iceland, and how these can potentially affect supply to the UK. Quota consolidation has been a feature of Iceland‘s fisheries sector since 1991, when the government introduced individual transferable quotas (ITQs) across all species. This allowed some companies to buy up quotas from others, and catch them in a way which, in theory, ought to be more efficient. The concept is that overall economic return from the resource will be maximised by allowing for such optimisation. Now, almost three decades later, the economy of scale has resulted in extreme consolidation across the seafood sector, where smaller companies have merged into larger ones or been bought up by the big vertically integrated seafood companies. The catching and processing sectors have been going through major development phase in recent years, as vessels and processing technologies have advanced and become much more efficient. This however comes with a price tag that only the larger companies can afford, which in return has escalated consolidation. As example, in 1991 the ten largest companies owned 24% of the overall quota in cod-equivalent but have now possession of 52% of the quota; and the twenty largest companies own 72%. In order to maintain diversity in the industry and to avoid ending up with only a handful of companies possessing the entire quota, the government placed a cap (quota ceiling) on how much individual companies are allowed to own of the quota. For the main ITQ system this cap is 12% in cod-equivalent and for the coastal fleet (vessels below 15 meters) the quota ceiling is at 5%. However, at present, if a company holds a stake of less than 50% in another firm, that latter firm’s quota holdings do not count towards the quota ceiling. As results, many of the larger companies have now cross-ownership that are not very transparent. Clusters of connected companies have therefore emerged, which are dependent on each other. In the spring of 2019, the government formed a committee that was to review and suggest on how “connected companies” should be defined with regard to the quota ceiling. The committee returned its suggestions in end of 2019. The main results were that majority ownership should still be needed to count quotas against the ceiling. Increased transparency is however suggested, obligating companies that possess more than 6% of the quota (2.5% of the coastal fleet quota) to disclose cross-ownership with the Directorate of fisheries. This report gives a brief overview of cross-ownership and dependencies between the largest seafood companies in Iceland and concludes how these may affect supply to the UK, particularly in regard to supplies of fresh whole fish. The report also provides information on major investments that have occurred in the last few years that are likely to effect supply of fresh whole fish to UK., Funding: SEAFISH (SEA 8451)

This report summarises the progress and main outputs when it comes to development of visualisation materials and visualisation tools within the FarFish project. Development of visualisation materials and other visualisation tools that allow stakeholders to easily understand otherwise complicate data on e.g. biological, ecological, economic, social and political issues relevant for the six FarFish case studies is an important component of the FarFish project. These visualisation materials and tools have the purpose of assisting stakeholders within the case studies when developing Management Recommendations (MRs), by sowing in a simple manner historic data and forecasts. The forecasts are in particular intended to provide stakeholders with most likely scenarios or effects of MR implementation (what if? scenarios). The visualisation materials and other visualisation tools do also have an important purpose for overall aim of the FarFish project, when it comes to advancing knowledge on fisheries in the case studies, both for internal use within the project and for stakeholders outside of the project. The FarFish project is run in an iterative process, which amongst other things means that MRs will be developed, tested/validated and audited/valuated twice during the lifetime of the project. The second MRs (MR2) are to be developed and audited in the second half of the project. The visualisation materials and other visualisation tools are also expected to go through similar iterative process, where first and second versions are intended to assist stakeholders with developing MR1 and MR2. This deliverable reports on the progress and current status of the visualisation materials and visualisation tools that have been, or are intended to be, made available within the FarFish project to support MR2 development.

About 20% of the catch of the European fishing fleet is obtained from non-European waters. Access to these waters is often based on agreements with coastal states that allow the EU fleet to fish from surplus stocks in return for financing of infrastructure development in the fisheries sector. These agreements have been criticized, as these fisheries are often poorly regulated and management decisions are sometimes based on limited knowledge, compliance, and enforcement capabilities. It is also too often the case that trust between stakeholders is lacking. The aim of FarFish is to overcome these hurdles. The FarFish project is designed around six case study areas in which the European operators are actively engaged in fishing activities, including Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal and Seychelles, as well as the international seas in the southeast and southwest Atlantic. In this context of geographic, economic and cultural diversity, the project will gain insights into the sustainability commercially important species such as tuna, hake, mackerel, sardines, octopus, shrimp, and other relevant fisheries. The project will contribute to the exploitation at or below corresponding Maximum Sustainable Yields (MSY) for these fisheries. FarFish aims to improve sustainability and profitability of the European fishing fleet operating outside European waters. FarFish brings together 21 organisations and agencies across Europe, Africa and South America in addition to a number of international organizations. This plan for the dissemination of knowledge and exploitation of FarFish describes the project partners’ strategies and actions related to the exploitation, dissemination and communication of the project results. The plan will be revised and updated on a continuous basis. The FarFish consortium aims to disseminate and communicate the results and recommendations obtained from the project’s work to all relevant parties, including FarFish partners, stakeholders and the general public. The use of efficient and productive internal and external communication, actions, tools and participative events will ensure that all target groups are reached. This plan describes how the new knowledge and tools created will be exploited and disseminated, and defines a clear set of actions in the project timeline including; purpose, target groups, methods, vehicles, timing, indicators and success criteria.

This 2nd annual report provides an overview of the overall progress in the FarFish project during its second year from the viewpoint of WP8 (Project management). The report contains details on delivery dates of deliverables and milestones i.e. if they were submitted on time and justifications if not; and if there were any deviations from the project plan regarding content. The report does also review the contribution and use of resources of each partner; and whether it is in line with what was expected in the project plan. The 1st periodic report, which covers the first 18 months of the project, is as well discussed; highlighting the most important issues that came out of the review process. Main consortium meetings are discussed. Deviations from original project plan and mitigation measures deployed are as well covered in the report, identifying what has not gone as planned and how that is being addressed by the consortium. The report does also cover specifically each task in WP8, by listing up the purpose of each task and what has been done to meet the tasks. Meeting minutes from PMG meetings, the 2019 annual meeting and the semi-annual WP & CS leader meeting are attached to this report in Appendices.

This 1st annual report provides an overview of the overall progress in the FarFish project during its first year from the viewpoint of WP8 (Project management). The report contains details on the main meetings organised by WP8, which were the kick-off meeting in June 2017, seven Project Management Group Meetings (PMG), the first annual meeting held in Portsmouth in May 2018, the Scientific Group (SC) meeting in connection with the annual meeting in Portsmouth, and a Work package - and Case study leaders workshop meeting held in Faro, Portugal in November 2017. WP8 has also followed progress and use of resources by collecting financial and technical reports from each partner every six months. Meeting minutes, agendas, participant lists from the various meetings are compiled in this deliverable (D8.1).

Coastal fisheries play a vital role in the marine sector of the Nordic countries and serves as a backbone of the economy of many smaller coastal communities. The coastal fleets usually have a big presence in smaller, more remote fishing villages, supplying local processing companies with raw material. The coastal sector is therefore highly important for regional development, as it represents a significant part of total landings and offers employment for a large number of fishermen, processors and other supporting industries. This report reviews the coastal sectors in seven Nordic countries, which include almost 20 thousand coastal vessels that are catching close to 900 thousand tonnes a year, valued at 1.2 billion EUR. The fleets are highly variable and the individual countries do each have their unique strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, which are discussed in the report.

The FarFish project will collect considerable amount of non-personally identifiable data as well as personal data. It is recognised by the project consortia that privacy and data security is of the upmost importance and will be given special attention. FarFish will follow national and EU regulations on data protection; in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which enters into force in May 2018. The purpose of this document is to provide detailed information on the procedures that will be implemented for collection, storage, protection, retention and destruction of data within the FarFish project and to confirm that they comply with national and EU legislation. The document does also provide detailed information on the informed consent procedures that will be implemented regarding the collection, storage and protection of personal data in the project.

Executive Summary This document is the second deliverable in work package 5 of the DiscardLess project. The project is intended to contribute to a successful implementation of the landing obligation of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy of the EU. The work package 5 addresses how unwanted, unavoidable catches can be handled on-board the fishing vessels i.e. from catch to first sale. The objective of this deliverable is to identify available alternatives and recommend the most applicable solutions for on-board handling of these unwanted, unavoidable catches for four different fleet segments in three case studies. The case studies are North Sea, Bay of Biscay and Northeast Atlantic (Iceland and UK), but the selection of vessels has taken into consideration transferability to other European fleets and areas. Practical and cost efficient solutions are identified, adapted and developed for four different fleet segments based on input from different tasks in the project (1.4, 5.1, 6.1 & 6.2) and stakeholder interaction. The fleet segments selected are 10-15 meter hook & line coastal vessels typically operated in Northeast Atlantic, 18-30 meter Danish seine/bottom trawl vessels typically operated in the North Sea and adjacent areas, 34-44 meter Bay of Biscay bottom trawlers typically operated by the Spanish fleet and finally 40-60 meter fresh-fish bottom trawlers used by most EU offshore fleets. Solutions for sorting, bleeding, cleaning, chilling, pre-processing, storing and other on-board handling are suggested and evaluated based on need, cost and applicability. Some parts of the work include elements of technological innovation, but most rely on exploiting currently available solutions, applying “best practice” technology and knowledge. Recommended solutions are presented on deck-plans (drawings) in order for stakeholders to get a clearer picture of the suggested changes. The work presented in this report focuses on the four previously mentioned fleet types that provide a relatively good cross-section of important EU fleets that are to be heavily affected by the landing obligation. It includes reviewing current setup of on-board handling where discarding is allowed and then identifies solutions applicable for those fleet types under a discard ban. The main challenges are connected to catches of juvenile fish, which cannot be utilised for direct human consumption. A number of alternatives are identified for each fleet segment and the most applicable solutions are discussed and demonstrated in detail e.g. in deck-plans, mas-balance calculations, cost/benefit assessment etc.

Executive Summary: This report is intended to contribute to a successful implementation of the landing obligation (LO) of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy of the EU. The work package focuses on how unavoidable, unwanted catches (UUC) can be utilised once they have been landed. The first step in that work is to provide an overview of current and expected supplies of UUC, where and when they will be landed, what are the available facilities and how the set-up is at the landing harbours to cope with changing supplies effected by the LO. This document addresses that by focusing on five selected fisheries, which will be key case studies in future work within the work package i.e. Bay of Biscay (landings in the Basque country), North Sea (Danish fleet) and Iceland. Landing and discarding statistics from the Mediterranean (bottom trawlers landing in Mallorca) and the English Channel (French fleet) are also analysed. The role of Iceland in this report is to provide an example of where a LO has been successfully in effect for decades. Estimating future landings of what used to be discarded under a policy regime that obliged fishermen to discard UUC cannot realistically take into consideration changes in behaviour of fishermen that inevitably will occur. Once the LO is implemented the fishermen will change their practises, for example by avoiding areas with high volumes of UUC or by applying more selective fishing gear. The historic discard data can therefore only give indications on what UUC are likely to be landed in certain areas, as well as when and by which fleets. The general results from all of the case studies is that relatively few species and fleets account for most of the discards. There are also in most fisheries very few harbours that stand out, representing vast majority of the discards. The available facilities are in most cases going to be sufficient to cope with changing supplies of catches intended for production of products for human consumption. Catches below Minimum Conservation Reference Size (MCRS) and other catches that cannot be utilised for direct human consumption will however present a challenge in many areas. Solutions for processing those materials will either have to be simple and inexpensive, or strategically located so that raw materials can easily be transported to them. The lessons learned from Iceland are that a successful implementation takes time and that economic incentives generally work best. Safety criteria’s relevant for UUC utilisation are fairly straightforward and need to apply to established rules and regulations. There is a fundamental difference in requirements for UUC intended for direct human consumption and catches that are used for other purposes, but traceability and documentation verifying that the products are safe are always required. When it comes to quality criteria’s requirements can be more subjective, as long as the products are safe.

Cod and haddock products from the North Atlantic come primarily from sustainably harvested stocks, are healthy to eat and have comparatively low environmental impact. In an ideal world these favourable characteristics should provide these products with a competitive advantage and higher prices in the market, but currently this is not the case. A key reason for this is the lack of differentiation of cod and haddock products from the N-Atlantic compared to other whitefish species, for example similar products from Asia – e.g. pangasius and tilapia. The products are homogeneous, they do not stand out in comparison with competing products and there is little done to try to highlight the many positive properties that they have. The WhiteFishMaLL project was initiated to address these challenges. WhiteFishMaLL, which stands for North Atlantic Whitefish Marine Living Lab, was a three year research and development project that ran from beginning of year 2012 untilearly 2015. The primary objective of the WhiteFishMaLL project was to build a branding platform for whitefish from the North Atlantic that facilitates market differentiation in termsof sustainability and superior consumer benefits. The project had also a secondary objective, which was to demonstrate how a Living Lab can be established in the marine sector, dealingwith a specific innovation challenges, where the solution is co-created, explored, demonstrated and evaluated with a user-centric approach in real-world environments. This meant applyingLiving Lab approaches to meet with the main objective, and using that process to demonstrate how Living Lab can be applied in the Nordic marine sector.

This report contains the 2nd management recommendation (MR) invitations submitted to the case studies in the FarFish project i.e. the high-seas fisheries in SW-Atlantic and SE-Atlantic, and the SFPA fisheries in Cape Verde, Senegal, Mauritania and Seychelles. The purpose of these MR invitations is to offer selected operators (resource users) the opportunity to develop MRs following the “second draft general guidelines for making MRs” presented in FarFish deliverable 3.5. The approach presented in the guidelines are based on principles of results-based management (RBM), where the responsibility for fisheries management is partly transferred to the resource users, provided that they meet with necessary requirements set forth by the authorities and provide documentation confirming implementation and achievement of specified management objectives. The advantages of such an approach include facilitation of more bottom-up style of management where the actual resource users and other stakeholders are involved. This approach is likely to increase the sense of ownership, by the resource users, in the management. Other advantages are for example increased transparency, as well as reduced costs and increased coverage of monitoring, control and surveillance. The MR invitations follow up on a pre-invitation dialogues where the basics of the approach have been introduced. The MR invitations include a short description of what is to be the focus of the MRs, identification of the main actors and their roles and responsibilities in the process, details on the current status of the fishery and finally the identification of so-called Outcome Targets (OTs) that are performance goals that the MRs are to meet.

More than 20% of the European fishing fleets catches are taken from non-European waters. Access to these waters is often based on agreements with coastal states that allow the EU fleet to fish from surplus stocks in return for financial support. These agreements have been subjected to criticism, as these fisheries are sometimes poorly regulated and management decisions are often based on limited knowledge, compliance, and enforcement capabilities. It is also too often the case that trust between stakeholders is lacking. The aim of the FarFish project is to overcome these hurdles. The FarFish project is designed around six case study areas in which the European fleet is actively engaged in fishing activities, including Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal and Seychelles, as well as the international high-seas areas in the southeast and southwest Atlantic. In this context of geographic, economic and cultural diversity, the project will gain insights into the sustainability of commercially important species. Significant focus of the FarFish project is placed on education, knowledge transfer, and improving professional skills and competences of stakeholders within the case studies and beyond within the field of fisheries management. This includes education and knowledge transfer to a wide variety of stakeholders within the respective value chains, utilising different means; such as social media, e-learning, Tutor-web, a special university-level certificate program in Marine Management and Innovation and a six-month post-graduate program tailor-made for FarFish. This document reports on the setup and launching of the six-month post-graduate program, which was launched in September 2018 and will graduate at least five students before end of the FarFish project. Two students have already been graduated when this report is published and four more have been invited to join the programme in September 2019.

This report summarises the progress and main outputs when it comes to development of visualisation materials and visualisation tools within the FarFish project. Development of visualisation materials and other visualisation tools that allow stakeholders to easily understand otherwise complicate data on e.g. biological, ecological, economic, social and political issues relevant for the six FarFish case studies is an important component of the FarFish project. These visualisation materials and tools have the purpose of assisting stakeholders within the case studies when developing Management Recommendations (MRs), by sowing in a simple manner historic data and forecasts. The forecasts are in particular intended to provide stakeholders with most likely scenarios or effects of MR implementation (what if? scenarios). The visualisation materials and other visualisation tools do also have an important purpose for overall aim of the FarFish project, when it comes to advancing knowledge on fisheries in the case studies, both for internal use within the project and for stakeholders outside of the project. The FarFish project is run in an iterative process, which amongst other things means that MRs will be developed, tested/validated and audited/valuated twice during the lifetime of the project. The second MRs (MR2) are to be developed and audited in the second half of the project. The visualisation materials and other visualisation tools are also expected to go through similar iterative process, where first and second versions are intended to assist stakeholders with developing MR1 and MR2. This deliverable reports on the progress and current status of the visualisation materials and visualisation tools that have been, or are intended to be, made available within the FarFish project to support MR2 development.

More than 20% of the European fishing fleets catches are taken from non-European waters. Access to these waters is often based on agreements with coastal states that allow the EU fleet to fish from surplus stocks in return for financial support. These agreements have been subjected to criticism, as these fisheries are sometimes poorly regulated and management decisions are often based on limited knowledge, compliance, and enforcement capabilities. It is also too often the case that trust between stakeholders is lacking. The aim of the FarFish project is to overcome these hurdles. The FarFish project is designed around six case study areas in which the European fleet is actively engaged in fishing activities, including Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal and Seychelles, as well as the international high-seas areas in the southeast and southwest Atlantic. In this context of geographic, economic and cultural diversity, the project will gain insights into the sustainability of commercially important species. Significant focus of the FarFish project is placed on education, knowledge transfer, and improving professional skills and competences of stakeholders within the case studies and beyond within the field of fisheries management. This includes education and knowledge transfer to a wide variety of stakeholders within the respective value chains, utilising different means; such as social media, e-learning, Tutor-web, a special university-level certificate program in Marine Management and Innovation and a six-month post-graduate program tailor-made for FarFish. This document reports on the setup and launching of the six-month post-graduate program, which was launched in September 2018 and will graduate at least five students before end of the FarFish project. Two students have already been graduated when this report is published and four more have been invited to join the programme in September 2019.&nbsp

More than 20% of the European fishing fleets catches are taken from non-European waters. Access to these waters is often based on agreements with coastal states that allow the EU fleet to fish from surplus stocks in return for financial support. These agreements have been subjected to criticism, as these fisheries are sometimes poorly regulated and management decisions are often based on limited knowledge, compliance, and enforcement capabilities. It is also too often the case that trust between stakeholders is lacking. The aim of the FarFish project is to overcome these hurdles. The FarFish project is designed around six case study areas in which the European fleet is actively engaged in fishing activities, including Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal and Seychelles, as well as the international high-seas areas in the southeast and southwest Atlantic. Among the Research & Innovation outputs of the FarFish project is a development of a management approach where the management authorities and the resource users come to an agreement on some key objectives and how to meet them. This approach is designed to reduce micromanagement by involving stakeholders and increase the degree of co-management by delegating management responsibilities to resource users. The process is broken into a number of steps, which include a) the provision of guidelines on how to develop so called management recommendations (MRs), b) provision of an invitation from the authorities to the resource users to develop MRs, where overall objectives are established, c) development of MRs, d) third party audit of the MR, where the success of the MR is evaluated. Draft guidelines and MR invitations have been published, and this report compiles the first proposals for MRs for each of the FarFish case studies. These will then be audited by an independent auditor and the whole process will then be re-iterated. The aim is that by the end of the project, we will have a tested / validated approach for how to manage fisheries in cocreation between authorities and resource users.