ICES Advice 2005, Volume 4 - The Faroe Plateau Ecosystem

1 THE FAROE PLATEAU ECOSYSTEM

1.1 Ecosystem overview 1

1.1.1 Ecosystem components 1

1.1.2 Environmental impacts on the ecosystem dynamics 4

1.1.3 Fisheries effect on the ecosystem 7

1.1.4 Concluding remarks 7

1.1.5 References 8

1.2 The human use of the ecosystem 9

1.2.1 Overall impacts 9

1.2.2 Fisheries 9

1.3 Assessments and advice 10

1.4 Stock summaries The Faroe Plateau Ecosystem 20

1.4.1 Faroe Plateau cod (Subdivision Vb1) 20

1.4.2 Faroe Bank cod (Subdivision Vb2) 28

1.4.3 Faroe haddock (Division Vb) 33

1.4.4 Faroe saithe (Division Vb) 42