Questions and answers

...are currently only available in German. We try to answer questions often raised by media and the public, such as

• Do anoxic zones („death zones“) threaten commercially exploited fish stocks in the Baltic Sea?
• Are there sharks in the Baltic Sea?

Specific to the ICES cod advice 2015:

• Why has ICES changed the assessments for Baltic cod from area based to stock based, and where are the differences?

• How can area-specific total allowable catches be derived from the stock-specific ICES advice?

• Do recreational fishers compete with commercial fishers for Baltic cod?

• Why has eastern Baltic cod biomass declined so much after 2010?

• What is the medium-term perspective for both Baltic cod stocks in the light of the historic major Baltic inflow of saline and oxygen-rich water in December 2014?