Norwegian Sea ecoregion – fisheries overview ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Advice: Fisheries Overviews 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Norwegian Sea ICES Ecoregion; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Norway; Norwegian Sea; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.21640826; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Norwegian_Sea_ecoregion_fisheries_overview/21640826

The largest landings in this ecoregion are by Norway, the Russian Federation (Russia henceforth), Faroe Islands, and Iceland, mainly by pelagic fisheries. Other nations also have fisheries in the area. The number of fishing vessels is declining while the size of the remaining vessels is increasing. The annual catch in the ecoregion has varied between 700 000 tonnes to over 2 million tonnes. The pelagic fisheries, using purse seine and pelagic trawls, account for the largest catches by weight and target Norwegian spring-spawning (NSS) herring (her.27.1-24a514a), blue whiting (whb.27.1-91214), mackerel (mac.27.nea), and other pelagic species. The largest demersal fishery targets cod (cod.27.1-2), haddock (had.27.1-2), and saithe (pok.27.1-2) using bottom trawls, purse‑seine, Danish seine and gillnets, and to a lesser extent hook and line gear. Smaller fisheries target other gadoid species, Greenland halibut (ghl.27.1-2), and beaked redfish (reb.27.1-2). Landings of pelagic species within the ecoregion in the ...