The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has issued new scientific advice for Baltic Sea stocks, which highlight that the western Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) stock has not improved for another year with a further downward revision in biomass and upward revision in fishing exploitation rate.
However the good recruitment in 2016, if protected from overfishing, may help replenish this severely overfished stock, it said.
ICES advises that the comm…
