Publication Abstract

Climate variability and North Sea cod

C.M. O'Brien, C.J. Fox, B. Planque and J. Casey

The stock of North sea cod is under pressure because of overfishing, and we shoe here that it is also threatened by a decline in the production of young cod that has paralleled warming of the North Sea over the past ten years.The combination of a diminished stock and the persistence od adverse warm conditions is endangering the long-term sustainability of cod in the North Sea. To decrease the risk of collapse, fishing pressure must be reduced.

Reference:

C.M. O'Brien, C.J. Fox, B. Planque and J. Casey, 2000. Climate variability and North Sea cod. Nature, 404: p142