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; Turbot
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19280357.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_of_the_Working_Group_on_Assessment_of_New_MoU_Species_WGNEW_/19280357/1

The Working Group on Assessment of New MoU Species [WGNEW] deals with several species for which ICES so far (with the exception of sea bass) has never provided management advice. The species concerned are: sea bass, flounder (except for the Baltic), common dab (except for the Baltic), lemon sole, brill (except for the Baltic), turbot (except for the Baltic), witch flounder, red gurnard, tub gurnard, grey gurnard, striped red mullet, and John dory. Two meetings have so far been held: the first one in 2005 and a second one in 2007. The main task of WGNEW is to provide information on general biology, stock ID, fisheries, survey data, biological sampling and pa‐rameters, stock trends and management. WGNEW only worked by correspondence this year. Since only sea bass and striped red mullet are part of ongoing research programmes, this report only contains an up‐date of the information for these two species. For the other species the reader is referred to the two former reports of WGNEW (ICES 2006 and 2007). To ...