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; Eros; Norway; Norwegian Sea; Faroes; Iceland; Nordic Seas; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19268381; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_of_the_Planning_Group_on_Northeast_Atlantic_Pelagic_Ecosystem_Surveys_PGNAPES_/19268381

This present report was prepared by the Planning Group on Northeast Atlantic Pelagic Ecosystem Surveys (PGNAPES) in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands 14–17 August 2007 and contains the results of the acoustic, hydrographic, plankton and fish sampling from two international ICES coordinated survey in 2007. The International blue whiting spawning stock survey on the spawning grounds west of the British Isles in March-April 2007 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-June 2007 with participation of Denmark (EU coordinated), Faroes, Iceland; Russia and Norway. In addition the scientific study of mackerel, herring and blue whiting was performed in the Norwegian Sea in the July-August with the chartered commercial vessels M/V “Libas” and M/V “Eros” and a Russian survey with RV “Smolensk” in June ...