The status of the different Baltic herring stocks is more variable. For herring in the central Baltic, ICES recommends a TAC of no more than 92,000 tonnes which would imply a 23 percent cut in the current quota. A similar decrease is advised for herring in the Gulf of Riga: 22 percent reduction, or 25,500 tonnes. Western Baltic herring sees a three per cent cut, while no change is suggested for herring in the Bothnian Sea and Bothnian Bay (managed jointly) in the north.
Baltic sprat is most likely affected by increased predation from cod and the advice for next year is further cuts of 25 percent.Baltic salmon – which is made up of a number of wild populations, the viability of which is variable – continues to have problems with smolt survival and the ICES advice for the main basin and Gulf of Bothnia is a decrease in effort of 50 percent compared to 2010, or a maximum catch of 54,000 individuals. For salmon in the Gulf of Finland the ICES advice is that there should be no fishing on Estonian and Russian wild stocks, and that the overall catches should not increase.
Should people be 'stimulated' to eat white fish alternatives to cod?
