Family owners ‘t Mannetje as a last name are running one of a total of 275 fishery firms (308 vessels) operating in the Southern North Sea targeting flatfish. The number of people on board is five. The vessel is a pulswing which they bought in 1980 (the engine of the vessel is from 2000). The size of the vessel is: length 30.55 meters, width7.30 meters, depth 3.92 meters with a size of 213 Gross tonnage (and 1,408 horse power Caterpillar). MAN represents the Dutch flatfish fishery sector of the North Sea in the MYFISH project. They are members of VisNed and have been part of the structural changes in the sector that have taken place over the years.
Contribution to the project: Visserijbedrijf J. ‘t Mannetje SL 3 will participate as full partners in WPs 1, 2 and 3 to provide stakeholder expertise relevant to the North Sea flatfish fishery. Through workshops and in-depth interviews they will contribute to ensure a bottom up strategy of the developments of the maximum social yield variants in particular. Moreover, they will provide their views on the initial definitions suggested by experts on maximum social yield objectives, constraints and acceptable management measures as well as on a selection of maximum social yield variants and indicators as support to decision making and strategic planning. Importantly, they will provide stakeholder priorities and identify institutional aspects affecting an implementation phase of recommended management measures.