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This Guide provides a detailed description of how Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) reference points are derived and discusses some of the uncertainties and implications of managing fish stocks at MSY.

The Shellfish Stakeholder Working Group (SSWG) commissioned Seafish to undertake a review of the application of the Official Control Regulations that apply to live bivalve production in EU Member States, with a focus on the microbial requirements.

Drawing together the UK experience of lobster stocking as well as information from other programmes in Europe and North America, the report provides a sound knowledge base for anyone interested in setting up a lobster hatchery or stocking programme.

This report reviews ecosystem risk assessment methods and describes in detail the method evolved in Australia by CSIRO.

This Seafish/MCCIP watching brief report considers recent advances in scientific understanding and industry experience of climate change drivers and impacts in 2020 and 2021. It includes feedback from industry stakeholders on adaptation actions.

This note explains what discards are, why they occur, their significance and what can be done about them. The idea came from the Discard Action Group, one of the ‘issue forums’ that Seafish runs in order to resolve problems affecting the whole seafood supply chain. This group was established to start a cross-industry dialogue in response to the European Commission’s proposals to minimise or ban discarding. This is an updated edition of February 2008 briefing note. Discarding has moved up the political agenda again: in a global context European discards are still disproportionately high; the Commission is further developing its policy aimed at minimising discards across Europe; and the wasteful nature of discarding is increasingly seen as unacceptable throughout the supply chain. This briefing note includes an appendix that describes the initiatives introduced over the last couple of years, many initiated by the fishing industry, in order to reduce discarding in UK fisheries.

These pages contain technical advice on the cultivation of halibut. They are complimented by economic modelling tools that enable you to explore how a potential halibut cultivation business might work. There are models for the hatchery, nursery, onshore and cage-based on-growing aspects of farming. Key words: Aquaculture; Mussel; Scallop; Oyster; Clam; Halibut; Turbot; Cod; Manila; Pacific; Hyperbook; Economic; Model; cultivation; farming; King; Queen; algae; trestle, rope; cage; seabed; suspended; hatchery; nursery; production;

There exists an important lobster (Homarus gammarus) fishery, inshore, off Selsey (West Sussex). A fleet of fourteen full-time fishing vessels operates from the fishing station utilising offshore moorings which are afforded protection from the prevailing south-westerly wind by Selsey Bill. The fleet chiefly targets lobsters and crabs and, recently, whelk. In addition, 20 or so part-time boats occasionally use pots. This fishery is managed locally by a byelaw of the Sussex Sea Fisheries District Committee whereby 300 pots per vessel maximum are permitted within the 0-3nm. part of the District. Previous studies by the Sea Fisheries Committee have shown that a high proportion of the pot caught lobsters at Selsey are less than the minimum legal size of 87mm carapace length and are subsequently returned to the sea when the pots are retrieved and cleared. Evidence suggests that the entrapment and subsequent return of lobsters can result in damage and mortality.

A social and economic impact assessment of cockle mortality in the Burry Inlet cockle fishery, south Wales UK.

These pages contain technical advice on the cultivation of turbot. They are complimented by economic modelling tools that enable you to explore how a potential turbot cultivation business might work. There are models for the hatchery and on-growing aspects of farming. Key words: Aquaculture; Mussel; Scallop; Oyster; Clam; Halibut; Turbot; Cod; Manila; Pacific; Hyperbook; Economic; Model; cultivation; farming; King; Queen; algae; trestle, rope; cage; seabed; suspended; hatchery; nursery; production;

A market research report on the seafood sector in Australia.

These pages contain technical advice on the cultivation of mussels on the seabed. They are complimented by an economic modelling tool that enables you to explore how a potential seabed-grown mussel business might work. Key words: Aquaculture; Mussel; Scallop; Oyster; Clam; Halibut; Turbot; Cod; Manila; Pacific; Hyperbook; Economic; Model; cultivation; farming; King; Queen; algae; trestle, rope; cage; seabed; suspended; hatchery; nursery; production;