Achieving sustainable fisheries in the Norwegian Sea relies on management that recognises that fish stocks do not exist in isolation but interact with their environment and with each other.
The proposal STC-herring aims at assessing the feasibility and the potential effects of spatiotemporal closures on herring stocks in the Baltic and Eastern North Sea.
Spawning cod aggregations have been historically targeted by commercial fisheries since they tend to be predictable in time and space and offer easy access to large number of individuals.
13 consortia with researchers from Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have submitted proposals in the NordForsk call on Sustainable Fisheries from Healthy Seas.
The Nordic Council of Ministers has commissioned NordForsk to initiate a call on Sustainable fisheries from healthy seas. Available budget is NOK 40 million, and the call deadline is 28 May 2024.