Linking Climate and Fisheries Variability in the Mid-Atlantic Bight: A Case Study on the Atlantic Mackerel Fishery ...

• Main Author: Kowalske, David
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: ASC 2009 - Theme session G 2024
• Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Canada; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25071083.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Linking_Climate_and_Fisheries_Variability_in_the_Mid-Atlantic_Bight_A_Case_Study_on_the_Atlantic_Mackerel_Fishery/25071083/1

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Atlantic mackerel inhabit the North Atlantic Ocean and are common from North Carolina to Labrador, Canada. Over this range there is a northern and southern spawning component. The southern group spawns in the Mid-Atlantic Bight sometime between April and May. Following spawning, these fish migrate north into the Gulf of Maine. Mackerel are targeted in the MidAtlantic region by midwater trawl vessels between January and May ...