Our two ecosystems
of interests are the Georges Bank cod population and the Northeast Arctic cod
stocks. They are locate at the latitudinal extremes of the North Atlantic,
and are used here as examples of two systems that can be studied in order of
understanding how the governing processes required to ensure high growth and
survival are structured in each system. To understand this we rely on the use
of mechanistic individual based models that consists of the major physical
and biological processes that we know govern growth of larval cod
