Report of the North Western Working Group (NWWG), Sec 9 ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Expert Group reports (until 2018) 2023
• Subjects: Atlantic, Northeast ICES Ecoregion; FAO area 27; Atlantic, Northwest FAO area 21; Icelandic Waters ICES Ecoregion; Greenland Sea ICES Ecoregion; Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Fisheries and aquaculture; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Irminger Sea; East Greenland; Greenland Sea; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19263464; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_of_the_North_Western_Working_Group_NWWG_Sec_9/19263464

Traditionally, the S. mentella on the shelves and banks around the Faroe Islands, Iceland and at East Greenland have been treated as one stock unit, with a common area of larval extrusion to the SW of Iceland, a drift of the pelagic fry towards the nursery areas on relatively shallow waters at East Greenland, and feeding and copulation areas on the shelves and banks around Faroe Islands, Iceland and at East Greenland. In Faroese waters spawning has been observed in some years to the south and west of the islands, implying that there could be a local component in the area; no nursery areas have, however, been found so far (Reinert, 1990). A relationship to other ICES areas (II and IV) have also been suggested (Reinert et al., 1992; Reinert and Lastein, 1992). The question of a possible relationship between the deep-sea S. mentella on the shelf in Subareas V and XIV and the pelagic deep-sea S.mentella in the Irminger Sea has been raised several times. The ICES Working Group in 1999 on the Application of ...