The fishery for pelagic redfish (Sebastes mentella) in the Irminger Sea and adjacent waters

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn, Kristinsson, Kristján, Rätz, Hans-Joachim, Nedreaas, Kjell, Melnikov, Sergey P., Reinert, Jakup
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: article; Text; electronic logbook data; oceanic redfish; pelagic redfish; redfish fishery; redfish management; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Norway; Iceland; Sebastes mentella
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icesjms.2005.12.010; https://www.openagrar.de/receive/timport_mods_00029862; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/timport_derivate_00029862/dk039400.pdf

This paper describes the pelagic fishery for deep-sea redfish, Sebastes mentella, in the Irminger Sea and adjacent waters, from the start of commercial exploitation of the resource in 1982. The information prior to 1990 is mostly based on ICES reports and unpublished data, but from 1990, logbook dat...