The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has released advice for commercial fish stocks in the Baltic Sea and deep-sea stocks throughout the Northeast Atlantic.
ICES’ report covers the impacts of human activities on marine ecosystems and the management of the exploitation of living marine resources.
In addition, it responds to the policy and legal needs of member countries and multinational and intergovernmental organisations that use the advice as the scientific basis to manage human activities that affect, and are effected by, marine ecosystems. These include the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), Icelandic Fisheries Management Act and Faroe Islands Fisheries Management Act.
The Baltic Sea advice package comprises 21 stocks, including two North Sea herring stocks and advice on Baltic salmon and trout.
There are also 21 stocks included in the deep-sea package. These stocks cover a distribution area from the Arctic to as far south as Atlantic Iberian waters. Stocks include ling, blue ling, tusk, roundnose grenadier, red sea bream, and great silver smelt. Further advice on four deep-sea stocks exclusive to Iceland will be released on 12 June 2014, along with Arctic and North-Western stocks.
The advice is available online.
