Report of the Working Group on Assessment of New MoU Species (WGNEW) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Expert Group reports (until 2018) 2023
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Zeus; Turbot
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19280207; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_of_the_Working_Group_on_Assessment_of_New_MoU_Species_WGNEW_/19280207

WGNEW covers a number of species/stocks for which ICES, with the exception of sea bass, has never provided management advice. The species include sea bass, striped red mullet, red gurnard, tub gurnard, grey gurnard, brill, turbot, lemon sole, dab, flounder and witch flounder. WGNEW suggests adding John dory (Zeus faber) to this list because of its growing importance in the coastal areas of Brittany and the western Channel. WGNEW had its first meeting in 2005 and met again in January 2007. Following the 2005 WG’s comment on the problem of double coverage of some flatfish stocks by the Baltic Fisheries Assessment WG and WGNEW, the Baltic stocks were removed from the WGNEW ToR’s. Sea bass has been relatively well studied in the UK (England & Wales) and in France for several years. Recent work was done on striped red mullet in France. With the exception of these two species, most other WGNEW species do not get much attention in the ICES area. In 2005 WGNEW made a first overview of the available knowledge of ...