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Cod in Subarea 4, divisions 6.a and 7.d, and Subdivision 20 (North Sea, West of Scotland, eastern English Channel and Skagerrak)
StockCode
cod.27.46a7d20
Assessment Year
2024
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
18719
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25019219.v1
Status:
valid
Advice Component
Advice Category
*
FMSYranges
MP
MSY
NoAdv
Other
PA
Advice Type
*
Catches
Effort
FishMort
Landings
NoAd
NoFish
Advice Unit
*
t
ratio
%
AdviceValue
*
Advice Value Lower Range
Advice Value Upper Range
Wanted Catch
Wanted Catch Lower Range
Wanted Catch Upper Range
Advice Sentence
*
Northern shelf cod comprises three substocks (Northwestern, Southern and Viking) which mix and are caught together. ICES advises that when the MSY approach is applied for the Southern substock and precautionary considerations to protect the Southern substock are applied for the Northwestern and Viking substocks, catches in 2025 should be no more than 19 321 tonnes, which corresponds to 12 158 tonnes from the Northwestern substock, 4 089 tonnes from the Viking substock, and 3 074 tonnes from the Southern substock. These catches by substock should not be taken as area-specific advice. Juveniles of northern shelf cod migrate into the northern part of the Kattegat and are caught together with the Kattegat cod.
Advice Released Date
*
Advice Applicable From
*
Advice Applicable Until
*
TAF Link
Management Alignment
Full
Multiple
Other
Partial
MP WebLink
Management Plan Ownership
Link To Evaluation
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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,Northwestern) × 0.39*
12158
0.122
84212
28
-10.1
Other scenarios
FMSY
18272
0.193
76298
16.2
35
FMSY lower
11864
0.119
84419
29
-12.3
FMSY upper
28377
0.331
63549
-3.2
110
F = 0
0
0
99830
52
-100
Fpa
40511
0.536
48931
-25
199
SSB (2026) = Blim
57046
0.96
29860
-55
320
SSB (2026) = MSY Btrigger = Bpa
46716
0.68
41434
-37
250
F = F2024
27450
0.32
64868
-1.2
103
SSB(2026)=SSB(2025)
26328
0.3
65876
0.33
95
Symbol
Footnotes
*
F(2024,Northwestern) × 0.39 = F(2024,Northwestern) × (FMSY(Southern) × (SSB[2025, Southern]/MSY Btrigger[Southern])/F(2024, Southern))
**
SSB 2026 relative to SSB 2025 (65 657 t).
***
Advice value for 2025 relative to the corresponding advice value for 2024 (13 529 t).
^
Any differences between values in this table and other values in the advice sheet are due to stochasticity in the projections.