Aggregation patterns of pelagic commercial fish species under different stock situations and their impact on exploitation and assessment

Project Information

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Grant agreement ID: FAIR961799

Project closed

Start date 1 December 1996

End date 29 February 2000

Funded under

• Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of agriculture and fisheries (including agro-industry, food technologies, forestry, aquaculture and rural development), 1994-1998

Total cost € 1 213 969,00

EU contribution € 670 000,00

Coordinated by

Institut Francais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement
France

Objective

Extraction of school parameters. The objective is to extract school parameters from echo sounder echograms of historical acoustic surveys.

This consists in
(i) defining a list of school parameters significant for achieving the ecological objectives and
(ii) implementing protocols for the extraction of the school parameters adapted to the different acoustic surveys.

Standardisation. The objectives are
(i) analyse the sensitivity of school parameters to equipment settings,
(ii) analyse the sensitivity of school parameters to school depth,
(iii) propose new corrections for the length of school sections
(iv) propose a common echo integration threshold to be applied by all partners for replay of historical digital acoustic data and
(v) analyse the sensitivity of school parameters to protocols of extraction of school parameters from the acoustic data.

Specific surveys at sea.

The objective is to record
(i) for partner IEO: the influence of the day/night cycle on the aggregations and
(ii) for partner IMBC: the influence of the species composition.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › zoology › ichthyology

Programme(s)

• FP4-FAIR - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of agriculture and fisheries (including agro-industry, food technologies, forestry, aquaculture and rural development), 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 5.5.1 - Improved methodology

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Institut Francais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 911, Avenue Agropolis ; 34032 Montpellier ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

Fisheries Research Services

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Victoria Road ; AB11 9DB Aberdeen
• Total cost: No data

IFREMER - DRV/RH

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue de l'Ile d'Yeu ; 44311 Nantes
• Total cost: No data

Institute of Marine Biology of Crete

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Main Port Heraklion ; 71003 Heraklion
• Total cost: No data

Instituto Español de Oceanografòa

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: S/N,Muelle de Animas, S/N, Apartado de Correos 130 ; 15080 La Coruna
• Total cost: No data