EU request on the inventory of Member States’ monitoring programmes of bycatch of protected, endangered, and threatened species under the service of EC DG ENVIRONMENT

The inventory provides information on monitoring programmes and studies on the bycatch of protected, endangered and threatened species (PETS), based on reporting of sixteen EU Member States to a dedicated ICES data call. The inventory incorporates information from different types of monitoring methods in operation during 2017–2022 and includes 365 monitoring schemes. This inventory will be maintained and regularly updated by ICES. Includes a dataset.