Reports of the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management, 1980

In response to a request from the Commission of the European Economic Community the ACFM met, on 16-17 May 1980, at ICES headquarters to provide advice, about 6 weeks earlier than it would have done in the normal course of events, on three topics:

(a) any revision of the TAC, previously advised in the ACFM report prepared in.July 1979, for North Sea cod in 1980;

(b) any revision of the TAC for North Sea and Skagerrak saithe previously advised for 1980;

(c) to comment on the advisability of re-opening in 1980, under small TACs, herring fisheries currently subject to prohibitions on directed fisheries.