Report of the Study Group on Baltic Fish and Fisheries Issues in

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Contents

Executive summary

1 Introduction.

1.1 Participation.

1.2 Terms of Reference.

1.3 Activities and achievements of the BSRP Fish and Fisheries Coordination centre.

2 Growth changes of Baltic herring and sprat.

2.1 Status of herring and sprat database

2.2 Preliminary results of effects of biotic and abiotic variables on growth of herring and sprat

2.3 Growth modelling of herring for stock development forecasts.

3 Population structure of flounder in the Baltic

3.1 Separation of flounder populations based on tagging experiments.

3.2 Population structure of flounder based on microsatellite/genetic analyses

3.3 Comparison of flounder stock development trends in selected areas

4 Recruitment of Baltic fishes

4.1 Overview of environmental factors influence on recruitment success of herring.

4.1.1 Stock-recruitment relationship

4.1.2 Egg mortality on spawning grounds.

4.1.3 Larval and fry mortality

4.1.4 Differences in recruitment factors of the open sea and gulf herring populations.

4.2 Effects of temperature on the Baltic fish recruitment success.

4.3 Overview of environmental factors influence on recruitment success of flounder.

5 The slope of the size spectra of coastal fish communities.

5.1 The slope of the size spectra for some selected coastal commercial fish species and its relation

to fishing effort-related indices and environmental changes

5.2 Comparison of the performance of the slope of the size spectra to other coastal fish indicators



6 Update the Baltic Sea overview taking into account open sea and coastal interactions.

7 Framework for Integrated Assessment for the Baltic Sea and the future role of SGBFFI.

8 Age reading inconsistencies for the Baltic sprat.

9 Status and dynamics of the gulf herring populations in the Baltic Sea.

10 References28

Annex 1: List of participants.32Annex 2: Agenda.

Annex 3: Recommendations

Annex 4: Draft resolution for ICES/BSRP Workshop