The ICES Herring Assessment Working Group for the Area south of 62°N meets in Hamburg, Germany

One of the three scientific working groups in the ICES environment dealing with herring is the Herring Assessment WG (HAWG). From March 13th-22nd 2001, the HAWG meets at the Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei in Hamburg, Germany. Chaired by Marinelle Basson (UK), 22 participants from 7 European countries analyse stock size, fishing mortality, recruitment and catch options for herring in the North Sea, Western Baltic and other North-east Atlantic herring and sprat stocks. HAWG is one of the oldest assessment working groups within ICES, and it meets outside the ICES headquarters in Copenhagen for the first time in centuries.

Updated information on all the stocks dealt with will be available on this website soon after the meeting of the Advisory Commitee on Fisheries Management (ACFM) in May 2001. However, first results indicate that the spawning stock biomass of North Sea Autumn Spawners was declining during the last year. The report will be available soon for WG members, and in May for the public, at the ICES website: http://www.ices.dk/committe/acfm/wgnew/hawg/hawg.htm. More photographs? Click here!

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Christopher Zimmermann (20-03-01)