Advice and Scenarios Database



Cod in Subarea 4, divisions 6.a and 7.d, and Subdivision 20 (North Sea, West of Scotland, eastern English Channel and Skagerrak)
StockCode (Assessment Component)
cod.27.46a7d20 (Viking Substock)
Assessment Year
2024
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
18715
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.27441678.v1






Catch scenarios


Basis
Total catch (2025)
Ftotal (ages 2–4)^
SSB (2026)^
% SSB change**
% advice change***
2025 2025 2026 2026 2025
(t) (ratio) (t) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
Precautionary considerations: F(2024,Viking) × 0.35* 3343 0.088 18867 24 -2.3
Other scenarios
FMSY 6500 0.186 15825 3.8 90
FMSY lower 3817 0.101 18447 21 11.6
FMSY upper 9388 0.295 12971 -14.9 175
F = 0 0 0 22397 47 -100
Fpa 9628 0.305 12747 -16.4 182
SSB (2026) = Blim 12892 0.46 9674 -37 280
SSB (2026) = MSY Btrigger = Bpa 8552 0.26 13785 -9.6 150
F = F2024 8248 0.25 13952 -8.5 141
SSB(2026)=SSB(2025) 7035 0.2 15240 -0.059 106




Symbol Footnotes
* F(2024, Viking) × 0.35 = F(2024,Viking) × (FMSY(Southern) × (SSB[2025, Southern]/MSY Btrigger[Southern])/F(2024, Southern))
** SSB 2026 relative to SSB 2025 (15 249 t).
*** Advice value for 2025 relative to the corresponding advice value for 2024 (3420 t).
^ Any differences between values in this table and other values in the advice sheet are due to stochasticity in the projections.