Manchester, 6-7 June Deadline for Abstract submission: 15th April. People worldwide depend on fisheries and coastal ecosystems for their income and subsistence production needs. How these systems are managed and developed is therefore a critical question with sustainability, equity, poverty and health dimensions. Studies of the risks associated with the management of these systems are
Do you have an interest in innovative ecosystem monitoring techniques? The ICES ASC2015 theme session report is now available. "In recent years there has been a shift in focus of marine monitoring programs that have traditionally addressed particular ecosystem components like biogeochemical parameters or commercial fish species stocks towards assessing the entire ecosystem. Accordingly, a
Nowadays fishers-science collaboration is in its golden age. We have evidences of great outputs for fisheries management building on the cooperation between fishermen and research teams, covering a wide variety of topics from gear selectivity to participatory modelling or management plans. MareFrame is working to identify how to make the most of this collaboration, using
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