Comment on “Five centuries of cod catches in eastern Canada,” by Schijns et al

• Published in: ICES journal of marine science Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 1705 - 1707
• Main Authors: Holm, Poul, Hayes, Patrick W, Nicholls, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 29.07.2022

Abstract Schijns et al. use a historical time series to inform a stock assessment model for the northern Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) fishery from 1508 to 2019. They find that catches from the sixteenth century to the 1950s did not exceed 200000 t per annum and could have been sustained today “if fis...