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

l. The first and second reports1) 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, infonnation 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.