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2025 ICES Advice on bycatch of endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) species of marine mammals, seabirds, marine turtles and selected fish species of bycatch relevance.

For details, see ICES, 2025. Bycatch of endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) species of marine mammals, seabirds, marine turtles and selected fish species of bycatch relevance. In Report of the ICES Advisory Committee, 2025. ICES Advice 2025, byc.eu. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.30734714

For explanations of columns, see Annex 7 in the above document.



ICES ecoregion
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ICES ecoregion Metier L4 Taxon Species Common Name Reported Bycatch 2024 Fishing effort (DaS) 2024 monitoring effort (DaS) 2017-2024 BPUE BPUE lower CI BPUE upper CI Bycatch 2024 Bycatch lower CI Bycatch upper CI Priority
greater north sea gtr seabirds uria aalge common guillemot 24 10854.1 1064.49 0 0 0.1716 NA NA NA No
greater north sea otb mammals delphinus delphis short-beaked common dolphin 8 111989 5311.87 0 0 0.01 NA NA NA Yes
greater north sea otb elasmobranchs dipturus intermedius common skate 211 111989 5992.53 0 0 0.1153 NA NA NA Yes
greater north sea ott elasmobranchs dipturus intermedius common skate 25 13275.8 1885.79 0 0 0.0006 uncertain uncertain uncertain Yes
greater north sea tbb elasmobranchs squatina squatina angelshark 1 61067 2301.27 0 0 184.8366 uncertain uncertain uncertain Yes
ionian sea and the central mediterranean sea otb elasmobranchs leucoraja melitensis maltese skate 7 65604.3 499 0 0 0.6149 NA NA NA Yes
western mediterranean sea lld seabirds calonectris diomedea cory's shearwater 224 34340.8 2453 0 0 0.0486 NA NA NA No
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