Recent changes in the winter distribution and movements of northern Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758) on the Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Kulka, David W., Wroblewski, J. S., Narayanan, Savi
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1995
• Subjects: Articles; Newfoundland; Belle Isle; Labrador Shelf; Funk Island; Hamilton Bank; Funk Island Bank; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/52/6/889; https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1995.0086

Using catch data collected by fishery observers from the otter trawl fleet, we describe changes in the winter distribution of cod on the Newfoundland–Labrador Shelf between 1980 and 1992. We determined the relative abundance of cod in three areas of winter aggregation: south-east of Hamilton Bank, s...