A joint effort by the Russian-Norwegian Arctic Fisheries Working Group has determined the total allowable catch (TAC) of cod in the Barents Sea should be no more than 269,550 metric tons (MT).
That amount would be a 14 percent cut from the quota advice for 2025 and 21 percent lower than the set quota for 2025. The announcement made by the Bergen, Norway-based Institute of Marine Research represents the latest in a series of cuts that now places the suggested TAC of cod in the area at the lowest level it has been since 2002, and if regulators follow the advice, it will be the lowest quota available since 1991.
“The spawning population of skrei is now below the precautionary level. Therefore, the quota advice is also decreasing again this year,” Bjarte Bogstad, a researcher with the Institute of Marine Research, said in a press release.
