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Canada American plaice (3LNO) - trawl (FIP)

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Progress Rating: D

Evaluation Start Date: 2015-07-03

Type: Comprehensive

Status: Active

FIP Lead: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Groundfish Enterprise Allocation Council (GEAC), Atlantic Groundfish Council (AGC)

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American plaice - Grand Bank of Newfoundland

Comments:

FIP remains at D. The last stage 4 is over three years old but the FIP is still active and reported recent stage 3 progress.

1. FIP Development	Dec 14	Fishery assessment or scoping document made public 29 December 2014 — Scoping document published 29 December 2014 — Canada’s 3LNO American Plaice Fishery relative to MSC standards, regarding the main fisheries where american plaice is caught
2. FIP Launch	Nov 13	Confirmation of project participants 4 November 2013 — FIP participants identified
2. FIP Launch	Nov 21	Workplan made public 12 November 2021 — Updated workplan made available 18 October 2016 — Workplan 2016 3 July 2015 — Workplan with activities and timeline 2014-2016
3. FIP Implementation	Jun 22	FIP activities undertaken 16 June 2022 — An interim monitoring report was conducted and concluded that there has been no change in stock status since the 2021 assessment. 9 November 2021 — Revised action plan presented 28 September 2021 — Updated bycatch data from the MSC certified Yellowtail flounder fishery has been presented and demonstrates that any subsequent A. plaice fishery would have very similar and very low bycatch of other species 1 June 2021 — NAFO Scientific Council meeting held in June 2021; 5-year workplan updated. The council identified a need to undertake a benchmark process to develop a new modelling framework for this stock 15 October 2020 — Perreault et al 's "A state-space stock assessment model for American Plaice on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland" was published in October 2020 in the Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science 1 March 2020 — Scientific analysis of state-space models underway with results, referencing other relevant papers. 1 March 2019 — A state-space stock assessment model is under review - analysis of this and comparison to the NAFO assessment model to be presented at the NAFO Scientific Council meeting in June 2020 18 October 2016 — Fishery Improvement Working Group Meeting - with DFO Science and Management representatives 29 April 2015 — FIP activities are ongoing
4. Improvements in Fishing Practices and Fishery Management	Apr 19	Verifiable improvement in policy/management and fishing practices 26 April 2019 — The Integrated Fisheries Management Plan for Groundfish in NAFO Subarea 2 + Divisions 3KLMNO has been published - includes the NAFO Conservation Plan and Rebuilding Strategy 1 March 2019 — Publicaiton of the 'Consolidated results of the 3LNO American Place Footprint assessed' - in March 2019, increasing the knowledge base on the impacts of the fishery. 31 March 2018 — At the end of March 2018, DFO released a significant publication which provides additional analysis of the fishery overlap and significant benthic areas contributing to improved information base. 1 April 2017 — Delineation Of Significant Areas Of Coldwater Corals And Atlantic And Eastern Arctic Marine Waters And Their Overlap With Fishing Activity Sponge-Dominated Communities In Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Marine Waters and their overlap with Fishing Activity. (DFO, 2017). 18 October 2016 — Improved management and decisions to move the fishing grounds to reduce by catch in the yellowtail fishery leading to aid recovery of plaice stock 14 October 2016 — A report of the current and historical footprint of the 3LNO American plaice fisheries (1990-92, 2013-15) was produced by Michel Comeau of Spatial Analysis, Ottawa, ON in October 2016. 1 July 2016 — Improving catch verification/estimation system
5. Improvements on the Water	—	Verifiable improvement on the water
6. MSC certification (optional)	—	MSC certificate made public