Report of the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the Baltic ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Expert Group reports (until 2018) 2023
• Subjects: Baltic Sea ICES Ecoregion; All ICES Ecoregions; Turbot
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19261610.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_of_the_Working_Group_on_the_Assessment_of_Demersal_Stocks_in_the_Baltic/19261610/1

At the Statutory Meeting of ICES in 1990, it was decided (C.Res.1990/2:5:9) that the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the Baltic would meet at ICES Headquarters from 3-12 April 1991 to:1) assess the status of and provide catch options for 1992 within safe biological limits for the cod stocks in the Baltic;2) consider the Report of the Working Group on Multispecies Assessments of Baltic Fish and provide the data requested by that Working Group;3) update the catch tables and, if possible, provide catch-at-age data for plaice, flounder, dab, turbot and brill which are maintained by the Working Group;4) advise further on the effects of introducing square mesh codends in trawls used in the cod fishery, taking into account the results of any recent experiments;5) evaluate the short- and long-term effects on the cod stocks of introducing a closure of the fishery on cod in the whole Baltic from 1 March to 30 April;6) advise on the effect on the flounder stock of increasing the by-catch allowance ...