A brief history of lumpfishing, assessment, and management across the North Atlantic

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Kennedy, James, Durif, Caroline M F, Florin, Ann-Britt, Fréchet, Alain, Gauthier, Johanne, Hüssy, Karin, Jónsson, Sigurður Þór, Ólafsson, Halldór Gunnar, Post, Søren, Hedeholm, Rasmus B
• Other Authors: Anderson, Emory, Working Group for Fisheries, Nordic Council of Ministers, Marine and Freshwater Institute, Institute of Marine Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Technical University of Denmark, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2018
• Subjects: Ecology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Tac; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsy146; http://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-pdf/76/1/181/31237489/fsy146.pdf

Abstract This report documents the fishery, assessment, and management of lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) across its distribution range. Targeting lumpfish for their roe on a large scale began in the 1950s in Iceland and Norway and then in Canada in the 1970s and Greenland in the 1990s. When the fishe...