Cefas: ITT for the assessment of catches and expenditure made by recreational sea fishing in the UK (Sea Angling 2019)

This tender is to source a list of people who go recreational sea fishing in the UK, and which is as representative as possible of the total population of people who fish recreationally for sea fish, for the purposes of selecting a panel of up to 1,500 people to complete a diary during 2019 to record all their marine recreational fishing activities, catches, and expenditure.

The survey will contribute to the UK meeting its legal requirements under the EU Multi-Annual Programme (EU-MAP - Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1251) to estimate recreational fishery catches of certain species; these statutory requirements are likely to continue until 2020.

The EU-MAP requirements vary between regions, but for the UK include: European sea bass, Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, sea trout, European eel, pollack, elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, and skates), and ICCAT species (e.g. tunas).

The 2019 survey will be designed to provide data on all marine species caught recreationally in the UK, to