Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea

Catch ( t x 10 3 )
Catch ( t x 10 3 )
Total marine fisheries extractions by country in the Baltic Sea: 1950-present, Rossing, Booth and Zeller 151
Unreported landings
Unallocated catches are described for some
species in ICES working group reports, and
form the basis of this section of our
unreported landings estimates (see
Methods section for details). Unreported
landings are estimated to have begun
following Lithuania‘s independence, and in
1991, estimated unreported landings were
1,195 t (Table 6). This then increased to a
peak of 7,750 t in 1996, before decreasing
overall to 2,660 t in 2004 (Figure 3). For
the remainder of the time period,
unreported landings showed an increasing
trend, and ended the time period at 4,531 t.
Total unreported landings from 1991-2007
were an estimated 66,322 t, or 20% of our
reconstructed total from 1991-2007.
9.0
Flatfish
8.0
7.0
6.0
Sprat Others
5.0
4.0
3.0
Herring
2.0
1.0
Cod
0.0
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Year
Figure 3. Lithuania‘s unreported landings by taxa, 1950-2007.
Cod wasthe largest contributor to unreported landings, and totaled
an estimated 39,048 t from 1991-2007. It was estimated that
unreported cod landings added an additional 19% of reported cod
landings to our reconstruction. Starting with an estimated 466 t in
1991, unreported cod landings peaked at an estimated 4,143 t in
1996, and then decreased for the remainder of the time period,
ending at 1,865 t in 2007. The next largest contribution to
unreported landings was sprat, which totaled 15,411 t from 1991-
2007, or an additional 7% to reported landings. Unreported sprat
landings were estimated to have been 258 t in 1991, increasing to
2,440 t in 1996, decreasing at the end of the 1990s, and then
showed an increasing trend for the rest of the time period, with
2,211 t in 2007. Unreported herring landings were estimated to
have contributed the third greatest amount to overall unreported landings, with an estimated total of
9,547 t for the time series, or an additional 5% of reported landings. In 1991, estimated unreported herring
landings were 455 t, and this increased to a peak of 1,793t in 1995. Following this, unreported herring
landings decreased to a low of 84 t in 2005, and ended the time period at 402 t. Unreported flatfish
landings contributed 1,663t to the total over the time period (an additional 1% on top of reported
landings), with a maximum annual catch of 191 t in 2001. Unreported landings of ‗others‘ contributed 669
t, or an additional 1% of reported landings.
Unreported salmon catches were an
estimated 23 t, or an additional 0.01% of
reported landings.
3.0
2.5
Table 6. Decadal totals of the
estimated unreported landings for
Lithuania (t).
Common
name
1950-
1989
1990-
1999
2000-
2007
Cod 0 20,357 18,691
Herring 0 7,689 1,858
Sprat 0 8,591 6,819
Flatfishes 0 745 918
Salmon 0 17 6
Others 0 204 427
a assumption based.
Flatfish
Discards
2.0
Herring
Others
1.5
Discards are comprised of four
Sprat
components (ghostfishing, underwater 1.0
discards, boat-based discards and sealdamaged
discards; for details see Methods
0.5
section). Discards were estimated to be 0.0
496 t at the beginning of the time series,
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
and until 1967 averaged 671 t annually
(with a peak of 932 t in 1957; Figure 4).
Year
This then increased during the following
Figure 4. Lithuania‘s discards by taxa, 1950-2007.
time period, to an average of 1,084 t
annually from 1967-1994 (with a peak of
1,595 t in 1979). For the remainder of the time series, the annual discards averaged 2,038 t annually (with
a peak of 2,462 t in 1996). Over the entire time series, discards totaled approx. 68,000 t (Table 7).