Mapping the spawning grounds of North Sea cod ( Gadus morhua ) by direct and indirect means

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Fox, Clive J, Taylor, Martin, Dickey-Collas, Mark, Fossum, Petter, Kraus, Gerd, Rohlf, Norbert, Munk, Peter, van Damme, Cindy J.G, Bolle, Loes J, Maxwell, David L, Wright, Peter J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2008
• Subjects: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Environmental Science; General Immunology and Microbiology; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Medicine; Dogger Bank; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0201; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2008.0201; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2008.0201

Despite recent evidence for sub-stock structuring, North Sea cod are assessed as a single unit. As a consequence, knowledge of sub-stock trends is poor. In particular, there are no recent evaluations of which spawning grounds are active. Here we report results from the first ichthyoplankton survey t...