These are the data outputs for the ICES technical service (April 2022) and include landings statistics for skates and rays caught in ICES areas 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 for the years 2017–2020. Discards
Managing the footprint of highly mobile fishing fleets is increasingly important due to continuing declines of fish populations. However, social-ecological drivers for fisher behaviour remain poorly