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• Main Author: Carsten Hvingel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Greenland; Cape Farewell; East Greenland; greenlandic; northern shrimp; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.556.8330; http://archive.nafo.int/open/sc/2002/scr02-147.pdf

Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) occurs off East Greenland from Cape Farewell to about 70oN in depths down to about 800m. North of 65 oN the stock spans the adjacent Greenlandic and Icelandic economic zones. The stock is assessed as a single population by evaluation of fishery dependent data only. The stock is managed by catch quotas in the Greenlandic zone. There are no management related restrictions on the fishery in the Icelandic zone. A multinational fleet of large factory trawlers exploits the stock taking annual catches close to 10 000 tons through the recent 15-year period. During the same period a biomass index indicate that the stock declined until 1993 and increased again thereafter. Fishing mortality indices have in the most recent year been the lowest of the time series. Since 1993 the geographical distribution of the fis hery seems to have been stable. The available biological samples since 1991 do not indicate any demographic imbalances of stock size composition.