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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Assessment product for good environmental status of marine quota fish stocks for the UK Marine Strategy 2024</dc:title>
  <dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">dataset</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=009_CEFAS5e90410d-44a5-4a90-8321-6254f6dc61bc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">The UK Marine Strategy assessment product for commercially exploited marine quota fish 
shows the Good Environmental Status (GES) for descriptor 3. The assessment of 
environmental status for commercially exploited fish stocks is based on the integration 
of results from fishing pressure and reproductive capacity indicator assessments 
following a conditional method (`ICES, 2016`_) where both indicators&#x2019; criteria need to 
be met for each stock. 

The 2024 UKMS assessment for marine quota fish uses a stock assessment data from 2016 to 
2021 to calculate of percentage of stocks being within safe biological limits considering 
6-year period where required data is available to integrate two indicators assessments, 
reproductive capacity (based on spawning stock biomass) and fishing pressure (based on 
fishing mortality), and compared with previous assessment cycles (2010-2015, 2004-2009)
. Full details on the UKMS assessment are published at 
`https://moat.cefas.co.uk/pressures-from-human-activities/commercial-fish-and-shellfish`_. 
 


.. _`ices, 2016`:
 https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.18686882

.. _`https://moat.cefas.co.uk/pressures-from-human-activities/commercial-fish-and-shellfish`:
 https://moat.cefas.co.uk/pressures-from-human-activities/commercial-fish-and-shellfish</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20251219 20250715</dc:date>
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