Working Group on Elasmobranch Fishes (WGEF) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES Scientific Reports 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast ICES Ecoregion; Celtic Seas ICES Ecoregion; Faroes ICES Ecoregion; Greater North Sea ICES Ecoregion; Greenland Sea ICES Ecoregion; Icelandic Waters ICES Ecoregion; Oceanic Northeast Atlantic ICES Ecoregion; Norwegian Sea ICES Ecoregion; Barents Sea ICES Ecoregion; Azores ICES Ecoregion; Atlantic, Northeast ICES Ecoregion; FAO area 27; Barents Sea; Greenland; Norwegian Sea; Faroes; Greenland Sea; Northeast Atlantic; Porbeagle
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.21089833.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Working_Group_on_Elasmobranch_Fishes_WGEF_/21089833/1

ICES WGEF is responsible for providing assessments and advice on the state of the stocks of sharks, skates, and rays throughout the ICES area. In 2022, WGEF provided advice for 29 stocks of rays and skates distributed the Celtic Seas and Bay of Biscay/West Iberia ecoregions and two stocks of sharks distributed in the Northeast. Some of the advice changed greatly compared to previous advices as data and modes were revised in a benchmark process for five stocks including the two stocks of sharks (porbeagle and spurdog) and three stocks of skates (cuckoo ray in the Celtic Seas and Bay of Biscay, undulate ray in the English Channel and thornback ray in the Bay of Biscay). For the latter, in addition to changes in the method, the stock structure was revised and the previous stock unit for the whole Bay of Biscay was split into two units, one in ICES divisions 8.a–b and 8.d (eastern shelf of the Bay of Biscay) and one in Division 8.c (Cantabrian Sea). The advices for four out of five stocks with the new assessment ...