Greenland Sea ecoregion – fisheries overview ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Advice: Fisheries Overviews 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Greenland Sea ICES Ecoregion; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Norway; atlantic cod; golden redfish; Greenland Sea; greenlandic; Iceland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.21640769; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Greenland_Sea_ecoregion_fisheries_overview/21640769

Around 60 vessels currently operate in the Greenland Sea ecoregion. In addition to the Greenlandic fleet, EU, Faroe Islands, Norway, and Russian Federation (Russia henceforth) are fishing in the ecoregion.As the ecoregion is within the Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the management of marine resources are under Greenlandic authority. Fisheries targeting widely distributed stocks (e.g., Norwegian spring‑spawning (NSS) herring [her.27.1-24a514a] and mackerel [mac.27.nea]) are managed by the North‑East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC). The fisheries of Greenland halibut (ghl.27.561214) and golden redfish (reg.27.561214) have been managed bilaterally with Iceland during the past decade.Fishing activity is mainly concentrated in the southern part of the region, south of 70°N. The primary pelagic species are herring, and mackerel, fished by pelagic trawl and purse-seine. The most important demersal fisheries are the bottom-trawl fisheries for Atlantic cod (cod.2127.1f14), Greenland halibut, golden ...