Datasets / North Sea fish stocks and stocks of North East Atlantic mackerel: 1964 to 2010 (spawning stock biomass)


North Sea fish stocks and stocks of North East Atlantic mackerel: 1964 to 2010 (spawning stock biomass)

Published By Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

Issued almost 10 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

Spawning stock biomass (SSB) is the total weight of all sexually mature fish in a population. Four of the five measured species have shown a small increase in adult biomass in 2009, although haddock has experienced a small year on year decrease in biomass from a peak in 2002