A no-take zone and partially protected areas are not enough to save the Kattegat cod, but enhance biomass and abundance of the local fish assemblage

• Main Authors: Sköld, Mattias, Börjesson, Patrik, Wennhage, Håkan, Hjelm, Joakim, Lövgren, Johan, Ringdahl, Katja
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Fish and Aquacultural Science; Fish and Wildlife Management; Kattegat; Norway; Gadus morhua; Scophthalmus maximus; Turbot
• Online Access: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/29682/; https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/29682/1/skold-m-et-al-20221118.pdf

To supplement catch and effort regulations with the purpose to rebuild the cod (Gadus morhua) stock in Kattegat, Sweden and Denmark established a large (426 km(2)) year-round no-take zone (NTZ) surrounded by partially protected areas (PPAs) in 2009. The purpose of these spatial regulations was to pr...