The causes of these successive poor recruitments are still unknown, but the result is that the stock has slipped below the precautionary level since 2006 and is moving dangerously close to the biologically safe level.
Ach is é an toradh atá air sin ná go bhfuil an stoc i ndiaidh dul faoin tairseach réamhchúraim ó 2006 ar aghaidh, agus tá sé ag tarraingt i bhfad róchóngarach do thairseach na slándála bitheolaí.