Small scale, big deal: Sampling catches from European small-scale fisheries.

Small-scale fleets (SSF) are important components of many ICES fisheries and are receiving growing attention within the CFP-reform and Marine Spatial Planning initiatives. In order to assess the importance of SSF within Europe, 2015 ICES WGCATCH compiled descriptions and data (effort, catch and value) of SSF fishing in EU waters, using 2012 as reference year and categorizing fleets by vessel length. The compiled information covered 17 countries describing a range of scenarios, spanning from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean. The <10m and 10–12m vessels were ranked highest in importance in nearly all countries in terms of number of vessels and employment. They were generally involved in multi-gear and multi-species fisheries developing seasonal or part-time activities into coastal areas with generally more sensitive habitats as nursery grounds or spawning aggregations. SSF were also found to be important for several fisheries in terms of effort, value and landings, and to represent a significant share of some TAC-quota or catches of regulated species, even though their landings may be under-reported. Group members also described the way SSF are sampled and estimated in their countries. The wide diversity in methodologies used to sample and estimate the impacts of SSF creates challenges to harmonize and standardize data quality indicators across European countries. We put forward some best practice guidelines for sampling SSF and show that these will have to be adapted at regional level in order to encompass existing variability at fleet and fisheries level

Small scale, big deal: Sampling catches from European small-scale fisheries.

Small-scale fleets (SSF) are important components of many ICES fisheries and are receiving growing attention within the CFP-reform and Marine Spatial Planning initiatives. In order to assess the importance of SSF within Europe, 2015 ICES WGCATCH compiled descriptions and data (effort, catch and value) of SSF fishing in EU waters, using 2012 as reference year and categorizing fleets by vessel length. The compiled information covered 17 countries describing a range of scenarios, spanning from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean. The <10m and 10–12m vessels were ranked highest in importance in nearly all countries in terms of number of vessels and employment. They were generally involved in multi-gear and multi-species fisheries developing seasonal or part-time activities into coastal areas with generally more sensitive habitats as nursery grounds or spawning aggregations. SSF were also found to be important for several fisheries in terms of effort, value and landings, and to represent a significant share of some TAC-quota or catches of regulated species, even though their landings may be under-reported. Group members also described the way SSF are sampled and estimated in their countries. The wide diversity in methodologies used to sample and estimate the impacts of SSF creates challenges to harmonize and standardize data quality indicators across European countries. We put forward some best practice guidelines for sampling SSF and show that these will have to be adapted at regional level in order to encompass existing variability at fleet and fisheries level

International Consensus Statement on Rhinology and Allergy: Rhinosinusitis

Background: The 5 years since the publication of the first International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Rhinosinusitis (ICAR‐RS) has witnessed foundational progress in our understanding and treatment of rhinologic disease. These advances are reflected within the more than 40 new topics covered within the ICAR‐RS‐2021 as well as updates to the original 140 topics. This executive summary consolidates the evidence‐based findings of the document. Methods: ICAR‐RS presents over 180 topics in the forms of evidence‐based reviews with recommendations (EBRRs), evidence‐based reviews, and literature reviews. The highest grade structured recommendations of the EBRR sections are summarized in this executive summary. Results: ICAR‐RS‐2021 covers 22 topics regarding the medical management of RS, which are grade A/B and are presented in the executive summary. Additionally, 4 topics regarding the surgical management of RS are grade A/B and are presented in the executive summary. Finally, a comprehensive evidence‐based management algorithm is provided. Conclusion: This ICAR‐RS‐2021 executive summary provides a compilation of the evidence‐based recommendations for medical and surgical treatment of the most common forms of RS

Long-term changes in fishery landings from the Canary–Saharan region

Poster.-- Eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems: integrative and comparative approaches, 2-6 June 2008, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, SpainThe northwest coast of Africa has been one of the main fishing grounds worldwide for years. As an eastern boundary current system, fisheries have been based on pelagic fish representing roughly 70% of the total catches on average. Specifically, the Saharan Bank has been fished since the fifteenth century producing very profitable finfish and cephalopod yields. These high yields lead to a massive presence of different fleets in the area during the 1960s, 70s and 80s taking advantage of the introduction of new fishing (e.g. bottom trawling) and preservation (i.e. freezing) methods. By that time, sudden outbursts of different populations were documented, as well as changes in the dominant species in the landings, such as the apparent replacement of finfish–targeted fisheries to cephalopod–targeted fisheries in the early 1970s, though the reasons behind these shifts remain unclear. A combination of factors has been suggested, including economic incentives, oceanographic anomalies, species competition, and overexploitation, however, these hypotheses have never been quantitatively confirmed. Here, we review and analyse the reported landings of several finfish and cephalopod species from the Canary Islands ports for almost 50 years. Using different formulations we suggest that major changes were forced by a dynamic interplay between exploitation, biology and oceanography. The increase of fishing effort exerted a direct effect on the dramatic rise of the landings; in addition, there has been detected first-order processes (i.e. density dependent effects probably caused by inter- and intra-specific interactions), and lagged oceanographic effects, leading to an increase of the landings during upwelling favourable years. However, these results do not exclude other related processes such as economic incentives and derived effects of discardsN

Future fish distributions constrained by depth in warming seas

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