July 11, 2014 — The following was released by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES):
COPENHAGEN — The regulation of fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic is to a large extent based on advice provided by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). ICES assessments of the status of fish stocks are now easily available via an interactive map. The map displays the so-called popular advice for each fish stock within the various ICES ecoregions and enables users, via hyperlinks, to gain access to more in-depth information on each stock.
The popular version, an easy-to-read digest of the official ICES advice, aims to reach a broader audience by describing the different fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic and the fish stocks that support them.
This digest of the ICES advice is now available for 194 fish stocks, including those in the Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea, Baltic Sea, the Bay of Biscay and Iberian waters, the Celtic Sea, the North Sea, around Iceland, around the Faroes, and East of Greenland.
In the future, ICES plans to supplement the information on the map with overviews of marine ecosystems. These overviews will feature descriptions of the ecoregions and provide brief accounts of the state of their marine ecosystems.
The map is available on the ICES website along with further information about the ICES advisory process and ICES work on integrated ecosystem assessments.
For further information, please contact:
Simon Cooper, Communications Assistant
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Copenhagen, Denmark
E-mail: simon.cooper@ices.dk Tel. +45 33 38 67 65
Read the PDF of the release here