Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) : The 2021 Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet (STECF 21-08

AER II focused on the nowcast and forecast, the special topics (outline of the current socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in EU fisheries and measures taken to mitigate the negative effects, the effects of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the EU and the UK, fuel efficiency, providing aggregated data specifically on trawlers) as well as drafting of the regional chapters. [...] STECF concludes that two important issues require extra analysis, and would need to be addressed before the AER 2022: the development of a routine to analyse the new variables collected under the EU-MAP, and the realignment of the nowcast methodology to accommodate the current unstable conditions of the market and the uncertainty of the effect of management changes. [...] The SSCF accounted for 61% of the number of vessels and 50% of the days-at-sea, while LSF generated by far the highest landed weight, with 88% of the total and 76% of the value in 2019. [...] In addition, and where possible, special focus should be given to the energy transition of the EU fleets (recent trends in ratios of energy efficiency for the different fleet segments), economic benefits of MSY (such as analysis of causality between stocks exploited sustainably and the improvement in the performance of the fleets), the impact of choke-species situations, status and recovery of imp. [...] In addition, and where possible, special focus should be given to the economic benefits of MSY (such as analysis of causality between stocks exploited sustainably and the improvement in the performance of the fleets), the impact of choke-species situations, status and recovery of important stocks and the implementation of other management measures, such as the Landing obligation and the role of th.