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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.



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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
bay of biscay and the iberian coast gns seabirds alca torda razorbill 10 45477.1 7141 0.0043 0.0012 0.0155 197 55 705 No
bay of biscay and the iberian coast gtr seabirds alca torda razorbill 10 71937.2 7980.18 0.0006 0 0.0189 NA NA NA No
greater north sea gns seabirds alca torda razorbill 70 35093.5 5088.05 0.0008 0 0.0689 NA NA NA No
icelandic waters gns seabirds alca torda razorbill 9 4595 1144 0.0078 0.004 0.0155 36 19 71 No
norwegian sea gns seabirds alca torda razorbill 5 7001.1 0.0009 0 0.0183 NA NA NA No
baltic sea gns fish acipenser oxyrinchus atlantic sturgeon 18 138213 3022 0.0178 0.0044 0.0718 2460 610 9930 Yes
ionian sea and the central mediterranean sea otb fish acipenser naccarii adriatic sturgeon 1 65604.3 499 0.002 0.0003 0.0142 uncertain uncertain uncertain Yes
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