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• Main Author: C. Hvingel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; northern shrimp; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.584.728; http://archive.nafo.int/open/sc/2004/scr04-075.pdf

Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) occurs on the continental shelf off West Greenland in NAFO Divisions 0A and 1A–1F in depths between approximately 150-600 m. The stock is assessed as a single population and managed by catch control. Greenland and Canada exploit the stock in Subarea 1 and Div. 0A east of 60oW, respectively. Following a maximum in 1992 of 105 000 tons catches decreased to around 80 000 tons in 1998 due to management measures. Since then stepwise increases of catch quotas have been followed by increased catches. The projected catch of 2004 is expected to be the highest ever amounting to about 141 000 tons. The inshore fishery (vessels below 80 GRT) accounts for around 15 % of the total landings. Reported discard and by-catch is low. A standardised CPUE series indicate an increasing trend of stock biomass since the early-1990s. The estimated 2004 median value is the highest of the time series. Standardised effort based on biomass indicated a decrease in