Guide to fish resources

Fish is a renewable resource which has been caught for food since time immemorial. The sharp increase in the intensity of fishing over recent decades constitutes a threat to the continuance of a number of commercial fish species. As a result of the by-catch of large numbers of other sea animals and the churning up of the seabed by trawling, the fishing industry has also had a harmful impact on other parts of the ecosystem.

Index Fish resources

• Introduction Fish: problems and policy (page is not available yet)
• Fish: fry stocks in the North Sea, 1980-2002
  The size of the fry stocks of four commercial fish species: sole, plaice, cod and herring. This indicator provides some information about the current populations of these species.
• Fish catches in the North Sea, 1990-2002