In first glimmer of hope for cold water shrimp, ICES raises harvest advice in Barents Sea, North Sea
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Undercurrent News/SCOM] Oct 14, 2014
Cold water shrimp stocks have been declining throughout the North Atlantic, with the cutbacks in Canada this past year the "shock" that sent prices soaring.
However, there are some signs of a balance returning between shrimp and cod, as ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, has increased its TAC advice on coldwater shrimp for the first time in five years.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas has increased its total allowable catch (TAC) advice for coldwater shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in the Barents Sea to 70,000 metric tons for 2015.
That is up from the advice of 60,000t ICES has issued for every year since at least 2010....
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