The level of discarding in the fisheries is not known, and no discards are accounted for in the assessments. Discarding is known to be a (varying) problem, e.g., in the haddock fisheries where discards is highly related to the abundance of haddock close to, but below the minimum legal catch size. Dingsør (2001) estimated discards in the commercial trawl fishery for Northeast Arctic cod during 1946-1998 and the effects on the assessment, and Sokolov (2004) estimated cod discard in the Russian bottom trawl fishery in the Barents Sea in 1983-2002.