Changes and trends in the demersal fish community of the Flemish Cap, Northwest Atlantic, in the period 1988–2008

Abstract Pérez-Rodríguez, A., Koen-Alonso, M., and Saborido-Rey, F. 2012. Changes and trends in the demersal fish community of the Flemish Cap, Northwest Atlantic, in the period 1988–2008. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 902–912. The Flemish Cap fish community (NAFO Division 3M) has been fished since the 1950s, and major changes in the biomass and abundance of its most important commercial species have been reported since the late 1980s. Variations in oceanographic conditions at the Cap, with alternating periods of cold and warm weather, have also been described. This work examines the e... Mehr ...