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Atlantic herring - Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank

last updated on 21st December 2009 (history)

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The herring resource was previously divided into the Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine stocks, based not on genetic but morphometric differences (Overholtz, 2006) and the Georges Bank/Nantucket Shoals and coastal Gulf of Maine herring have been identified as two distinct spawning components (Vonderweidt et al., 2008). However during most of the year herring are mixed and are caught together in the fisheries and in research surveys so the components are combined for assessment and management purposes into a single coastal stock complex.

US Atlantic herring

Gulf of Maine - Georges Bank herring stock complex

United States, Canada

NAFO 5Y, NAFO 5Z, NAFO 4X

To be defined, Seine nets (not specified), Traps (not specified), Midwater trawls – midwater trawls (not specified), Other trawls (not specified)

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Clupea harengus

Atlantic herring