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• Main Authors: Hans-joachim Rätz, Christoph Stransky
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Greenland; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.599.8283; http://archive.nafo.int/open/sc/2005/scr05-020.pdf

Survey abundance, biomass estimates and length compositions for golden and deep sea redfish> = 17 cm (Sebastes marinus and S. mentella), juvenile redfish <17 cm, American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides), Atlantic and spotted wolfish (Anarhichas lupus and A. minor) and thorny skate (Raja radiata) in Divisions 1B-1F are presented. In general, stocks sizes have declined significantly until the early 1990s and remained low. However, the stocks of American plaice, Atlantic and spotted wolfish indicate significant recovery potential due to increased recruitment. They are presently composed of small and mainly juvenile specimens. Good recruitment was also recorded in the cod stock off West and East Greenland and also juvenile haddock occurred in Greenland waters. In 2004, near bottom water temperature continued to be high (since 1996) close to its maximum of the time series in 2003.