Advice and Scenarios Database



Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) in Subarea 4 and Division 3.a (North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat)
StockCode
nop.27.3a4
Assessment Year
2024
Stock Category
1
Purpose
Advice
Published
Stock Assessment Key
19267
Link to Advice Sheet
https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25019426.v1






Catch scenarios


Basis
Catch (1 November 2024–31 October 2025)*
F (1 November 2024–31 October 2025)**
5th percentile SSB (4th quarter 2025)
Median SSB (4th quarter 2025)
% SSB change***
% catch change^
% advice change^^
2025 2025 2025 2025 2025 2025 2025
(t) (ratio) (t) (t) (%) (%) (%)
ICES Basis Advice
MSY approach: F = 0 0 0 20112 46831 -43 -100 -100
Other scenarios
F=Fstatus quo^^^ 5760 0.075 17775 43689 -47 -16.2 -72
F = 0.2 14770 0.203 14593 38695 -53 115 -28
F = 0.3 21338 0.304 12666 35475 -57 210 3.7
F = 0.4 27359 0.406 10984 32788 -60 298 33
F = 0.5 32860 0.507 9405 30476 -63 378 60
F = 0.6 37894 0.609 8268 28131 -66 451 84
F = 0.7 42659 0.71 7272 26152 -68 521 107




Symbol Footnotes
* The catch forecast is for the period 1 October to 30 September and approximates the TAC period 1 November 2024 to 31 October 2025.
** Any differences between values in this table and other values in Table 1 are due to stochasticity in the projections.
*** SSB at the beginning of the 4th quarter of 2025 relative to SSB at the beginning of the 4th quarter of 2024 (81 662tonnes).
^ Catches from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025 relative to catches from 1 October 2023 to 15 September 2024 (6 873tonnes).
^^ Advice value 2025 relative to the advice value 2024 (20 583tonnes).
^^^ Fishing mortality from the 4th quarter of 2023 to the 3rd quarter of 2024; from the assessment model.