The Pelagic AC provides credible, scientific, and consensus-based advice to inform pelagic fisheries policy, both upon the request of the European Commission and Member States, and on its own initiative. All advice and recommendations are developed and approved by the members of the Pelagic AC.
Our advice — and responses to it — may be accessed below.
| Name | Summary | Year | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consultation – Review Marine Strategy Framework Directive | The PelAC’s recommendation to the Commission consultation on the review of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) was submitted in a letter-format, and conveyed the following main conclusions: The PelAC shares the Commission’s aspirations for healthy marine ecosystems, and considers that the efforts and advice generated through the initiative of its Ecosystem Focus Group can be considered as contributions to the objectives set out by the MSFD, such as environmental aspects. The PelAC also highlighted the difficulty for stakeholders that are active in the specific field of pelagic fisheries management, to monitor developments and provide detailed input to such broad policy files such as the MSFD which encompasses diverse fields of knowledge and expertise. In part, this is a consequence of a lack of resources, but also because there has been limited active communication. The PelAC recommended to reflect on what can be done to enhance the engagement of stakeholders in the field of (pelagic) fisheries to the MSFD, highlighting that this recommendation goes both ways: applying to the Commission and the Member States, but also to the PelAC itself. | 2021 | Letter to COM on MSFD |