The Effect of a Cap on the TAC and restricting the 3-yr Maximum Decline in the TAC in Candidate Management Procedure Testing for the South African Hake Resource

Two possible variants suggested at the last DWG meeting to the Base Case hake CMP structure are examined. The results obtained suggest no need to modify this baseline structure. This document reports the results of the consequent investigation, which was conducted based on the CMPf1a tuning (a median average catch over 2011-2020 of 137 000t, and a 5% maximum downward constraint on the TAC change over successive years unless a penalty provision comes into play).