The North Atlantic subpolar gyre regulates the spawning distribution of blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou)

• Main Authors: Hátún, H, Payne, MR, Jacobsen, JA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Porcupine Bank; Rockall Plateau; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/5757/

The spawning stock of blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), an economically important pelagic gadoid in the North Atlantic Ocean, increased threefold after 1995. The reproductive success of the stock is largely determined during the very early stages of life, but little is known about the spawnin...