Marine and fisheries

Marine Fisheries Science Yearbook 2006/2007 leaflets

Leaflets on individual projects in the yearbook are available from MFA Port Offices (see www.mfa.gov.uk for addresses) or you can download leaflets at the links below:.

Fish stock monitoring and assesssment 2006/2007 

Sustainable marine fisheries research 2006/2007:
Impact of fisheries on the marine ecosystem:

  1. Developing indicators for fisheries management
  2. Impacts of bottom trawling
  3. Reducing bycatch in fishing gear

Effects of the environment on fish stocks:

  1. Impacts of climate change on fish recruitment
  2. Changes in the distribution of cod
  3. Plankton fluctuations and their effect on fish stocks: the role of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey

Fisheries management:

  1. Management of thornback rays in the Southern North Sea
  2. Management approaches for shellfish stocks
  3. Brown crab populations
  4. Cod stock structure in the Norh Sea and English Channel
  5. Tools for studying fish in the wild

The Fisheries Science Partnership 2006/2007  

  1. Western anglerfish survey
  2. Irish Sea roundfish
  3. North-east coast cod
  4. Hake selectivity
  5. Norh Sea whiting
  6. Yorkshire coast crustaceans

The Fisheries Challenge Fund 2006/2007

  1. Definition of fisheries groupings for the development of long term management plans for demersal fisheries in ICES subarea VII
  2. Exploration of harvesting strategies for achieving long-term sustainability for the North Sea mixed demersal roundfish fisheries
  3. Diffuse source pollution trial, Fal, Cornwall

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Page published: 07 May 2008

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