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IMARES, Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity (MAFCONS) (1999 -)

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General  
Data holding centreWageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden
CountryNetherlands  Netherlands
ProjectManaging Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity(MAFCONS)
Time periodYearly sampling in august/september since 1999.
OngoingYes
Geographical area

Central and Western North Sea.

Observations 
Parameters

Fish taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of the bed; Salinity of the water column; Temperature of the water column; Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance; Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts; Raw temperature and/or salinity instrument output; Fish taxonomy-related counts

Instruments

Balances and scales; rulers; CTD; beam trawls

Description 
Summary

The specific objectives of MAFCONS are to: (1) Bring together and formalise the relevant ecological theory in order to develop suitable hypotheses related to the mechanisms through which the ecological disturbance of fishing affects the diversity of fish and benthos communities. (2) Collect the relevant data to test these hypotheses, including data on: (a) variation in fishing effort to estimate variation in ecological disturbance. (b) variation in benthic invertebrate productivity and species diversity. (c) variation in groundfish species diversity. (3) Establish the relationships between fishing effort (which will be used to predict ecological disturbance) and the tools used to manage fisheries (at present TACs, but moving towards restriction of effort and closed areas or seasons in some situations).

OriginatorsWageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden
References

Various (2005) http://www.mafcons.org/reports.php, various

Availability 
OrganisationWageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden
AvailabilityDistribution cost charge
ContactIngeborg de Boois
Address

Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden
Haringkade 1
IJmuiden

1976 CP
Netherlands

Telephone+31 317480900
Facsimile+31 317487326
Emailingeborg.deboois@wur.nl
Administration 
Collating centreNational Oceanographic Data Committee
Local identifierIMARES_5760013
Global identifier4794
Last revised2011-02-24