Working Group on Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys (WGMEGS; outputs from 2022 meeting) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES Scientific Reports 2024
• Subjects: Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast ICES Ecoregion; Celtic Seas ICES Ecoregion; Norwegian Sea ICES Ecoregion; Faroes ICES Ecoregion; Greater North Sea ICES Ecoregion; Icelandic Waters ICES Ecoregion; Atlantic, Northeast ICES Ecoregion; FAO area 27; Atlantic, Western Central FAO area 31; Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Fisheries and aquaculture; ICES resources; Technologies and data; Hake; Norwegian Sea; Faroes
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.22128536; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Working_Group_on_Mackerel_and_Horse_Mackerel_Egg_Surveys_WGMEGS_outputs_from_2022_meeting_/22128536

The Working Group on Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys (WGMEGS) is responsible for the planning, data collection, and data analysis of the ICES triennial mackerel and horse mackerel egg surveys. This report focuses on the execution of the mackerel and horse mackerel egg survey (MEGS) in 2022. The results of the two 2021 online Workshops on Mackerel, Horse Mackerel and Hake Eggs Identification and Staging (WKMACHIS) and on Adult Egg Production Methods Parameters estima-tion in Mackerel and Horse Mackerel (WKAEPM) were discussed, with the subsequent enhance-ments and recommendations proposed during these workshops outlined in the workshop re-ports (ICES, 2022 a,b) and also incorporated into both of the WGMEGS manuals (ICES 2019a, b). Although the broad planning of the 2022 survey was undertaken during the 2021 planning meet-ing and detailed in the WGMEGS 2021 report, the provisionally agreed plan required additional intersessional refinements. The settled plan for the 2022 survey has been included as an ...