Rationale: Fishing can remove large part of key commercial stock from the ecosystem, thereby influencing directly and indirectly the other ecosystem components. Normalized fishing mortalities shows if a stock is harvested sustainable (according to given international reference levels). Landings show how much biomass is removed and IUU fishing, Ghost fishing and dumping show unwanted human harvest of key ecosystem components
Theme: Human activity
Component: Fisheries and other harvesting
Type of indicator: A, pressure indicator, describes anthropogenic impact
Priority of indicator: e, essential
Parameters:
• Normalized fishing mortalities (ICES)
• Fishing landings/catches by commercial fleets (ICES)
• IUU fishing
• Ghost fishing
• Dumping
Responsible institution:
Landings of North-East Arctic haddock. Source: AFWG report 2012, table 4.18/IMR