Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Catch, Effort and National/Regional Data Sets
Unreported Catches in the Barents Sea and Adjacent Waters for Periods from 1950 to 1998
Cindy Rejwan1,2, Shawn Booth1 and Dirk Zeller1
1Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
2Department of Biological Sciences, University of CalgaryAbstract
Catch data for the northeast Atlantic with an emphasis on Norwegian fisheries are provided. The focus is on discards, by-catch, unreported, misreported and unallocated catches. Sixteen commercial fish and invertebrate species are represented with unreported catches exceeding 25% of the total catch for five of these species. Particular emphasis is drawn to Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), redfish (Sebastes spp.) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus).