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Defra: UK Government Department for Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs. www.defra.gov.uk

NFFO: The National Federation of Fishermen's Organisation. www.nffo.org.uk

ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. www.ices.dk

2005/2006 programme

e in net underwater Before the start of the 2005/06 programme, Defra committed itself to providing supporting funds for a further three years of the partnership. The annual allocation remained unchanged, however, at £1m, and priority support was given to maintaining the established time-series on Northeast cod, southwest anglerfish, Irish Sea roundfish, and Western Channel sole and plaice. Additionally, a repeat survey was made of the plaice and lemon sole fishing grounds off the NE coast of England, the second year of that survey but with better focus than the first survey. Entirely new projects for the year looked at (5) the incidence of ghostnet fishing west of the UK by deploying grapnels in areas where deepsea fishing (nets and lines) was thought possibly to have resulted in gear being lost and abandoned, (7) Western cod, (8) the selectivity of hake fishing gear, and (10) cod off East Greenland, the latter to supplement the results of German surveys of cod around Greenland. A full list of the programmes and their objectives is given below. Full reports of the projects are available on this website, listed by vessel name, or they can be accessed on the reports page.

Programme	Months	Areas	Vessels and gears
1: North East Cod	Oct 2005	NE coast of England	Emulator (PDF, 910KB)
	Purpose - To extend the series of surveys for cod and whiting off the Northeast coast of England for a further three years.
2a:Western Anglerfish (North) 2b:Western Anglerfish (South)	Autumn/Winter 2005	Western English Channel and Approaches	Billy Rowney and Twilight III (PDF, 447 KB)
	Purpose - To extend the series of surveys for anglerfish, sole, lemon sole and cod off the Southwest of England for a further three years.
3:Irish Sea Roundfish	Mid February - mid March 2006	Western and Eastern Irish Sea	Isadale and Benaiah IV (PDF, 907 KB)
	Purpose - To extend the surveys for cod, whiting and haddock in the Irish Sea for a further three years.
4: North Sea Lemon Sole	June 2005	North Sea	Jubilee Quest (PDF 1.3 MB)
	Purpose -To examine the catch composition of the June/July flatfish fishery off the Northeast Coast of England sampling in detail lemon sole, plaice and cod.
5: Western Edge Ghost Nets	September 2005	Rosemary Bank to the west of Scotland.	Kirkella (PDF, 1.1 MB)
	Purpose - To determine the impact of ghost nets on the western shelf edge.
6a: Western Channel Sole (West) 6b: Western Channel Sole (East)	Mid August - mid October 2005	Western English Channel	Carhelmar (PDF, 602 KB) Lady-T Emiel (PDF, 602 KB)
	Purpose - To extend the series of surveys for anglerfish, sole, plaice and cod in the western English Channel, and to support a Cefas time series of flatfish, for a further three years.
7: Western Cod	February - March 2006	Bristol Channel andCeltic Sea	Josie Grace (PDF, 855 KB)
	Purpose - A "one-off" survey of western cod, to see if it was feasible to start to build a time-series of catches.
8: Selectivity of Hake Gill Nets in The Southwest Fishery	September - October 2005	Western English Channel and Celtic Sea	Carol H (PDF, 490 KB)
	Purpose - To examine the catch composition and selectivity of a range of static gears for hake in the southwest fisheries.
10: East Greenland cod	September 2005	East Greenland	Farnella (PDF, 855 KB)
	Purpose - To provide information on cod in selected areas at East Greenland.