Potential sources of unaccounted mortality in the fishery for Norwegian spring spawning herring

• Main Authors: Røttingen, Ingolf, Sandberg, Per, Schultz, Bjarne, Slotte, Aril
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES 2002
• Subjects: VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920; Faroe Islands; Norway; The Landing; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/100551

The stock of Norwegian spring spawning herring (NSSH) is managed and fished by 5 different parties. These are the EU, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Russia. The most common gears are purse seine and pelagic trawl. The fishery is regulated by quota, and to prevent the fishery exceeding the quota,...