Report of the Planning Group on Northeast Atlantic Pelagic Ecosystem Surveys (PGNAPES) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Expert Group reports (until 2018) 2023
• Subjects: Oceanic Northeast Atlantic ICES Ecoregion; Fisheries and aquaculture; Barents Sea; Norway; Norwegian Sea; Faroes; Iceland; Nordic Seas; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19267553.v2; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_of_the_Planning_Group_on_Northeast_Atlantic_Pelagic_Ecosystem_Surveys_PGNAPES_/19267553/2

The Planning Group on Northeast Atlantic Pelagic Ecosystem Surveys (PGNAPES) met in Galway, Ireland 16–18 August 2005. This report presents the acoustic, hydrographic, plankton, and fish sampling results from two main international ICES coordinated surveys in 2005. The International blue whiting spawning stock survey on the spawning grounds west of the British Isles in March-April 2005 with participation of Norway, Faroes, Russia and the Netherlands along with Ireland (EU coordinated), and International ecosystem survey in the Nordic Seas with main focus on Norwegian spring-spawning herring and blue whiting in the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea in May 2005 with participation of Denmark (EU coordinated), Faroes, Iceland, Norway, and Russia. In addition the Norwegian Sea was covered during June-July and in August 2005. The survey results include the distribution and the biomass estimate of spawning blue whiting in March-April west of the British Isles, and the distribution, migration and stock estimates of ...