Spawning and life history information for North Atlantic cod stocks

This synthesis of information on spawning and life history

of North Atlantic cod stocks is an update of ICES Cooperative Research Report, 205 (CRR 205), published in 1994, but it has been completely re-written. A comparison between the current publication and its predecessor gives a fairly detailed appreciation of the enormous body of new information which has become available over the intervening decade. ICES Cooperative Research Report, 205 was initiated by the ICES Larval Ecology Working Group to bring together the existing data on early life stages of cod and haddock in 1987, using a checklist which was circulated to Working Group members and participants at the ICES Symposium on The Early Life History of Fish held in 1988. The ICES Study Group on Cod Stock Fluctuations (which became the ICES/GLOBEC Working Group on Cod and Climate Change) also produced syntheses of information on North Atlantic cod stocks (ICES CM 1990/G:50) and these two sources, plus a large amount of additional material were published, together with nearly 800 references and six summary tables.