The survey, performed by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) science centre in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, studied 36 stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially important, ranging from Atlantic cod and haddock to winter flounders and Atlantic herring. The science centre at Woods Hole conducts annual spring and fall trawl surveys and has the world’s longest time series of standardised fishery population data.
