Third report of the ICES/ICNAF Joint Working Party on North Atlantic salmon, December 1970

The first and second reports of the Working Party dealt with the growth of the fishery for salmon off West Greenland in the period up to May 1968, with the results of investigations during this time on the composition, origin and biological features of the salmon concentrations exploited there and with assessments of the effects of the fishery on total and home-waters salmon catches and stocks. This report deals with the .further infonnation obtained for this fishery and the assessments made of its effects in the period May 1968 to February 1970; in addition, infornation is presented on the development of a high seas salmon fishery in the Norwegian Sea, which developed during this period, and of preliminary assessments of its effects on total and home-waters catches and stocks.