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IMARES, Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity (MAFCONS) (1999 -)
Data set information
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General | |
Data holding centre | Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden |
Country | Netherlands |
Project | Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity(MAFCONS) |
Time period | Yearly sampling in august/september since 1999. |
Ongoing | Yes |
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). |
Originators | Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden |
References | Various (2005) http://www.mafcons.org/reports.php, various |
Availability | |
Organisation | Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden |
Availability | Distribution cost charge |
Contact | Ingeborg de Boois |
Address | Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden |
Telephone | +31 317480900 |
Facsimile | +31 317487326 |
ingeborg.deboois@wur.nl | |
Administration | |
Collating centre | National Oceanographic Data Committee |
Local identifier | IMARES_5760013 |
Global identifier | 4794 |
Last revised | 2011-02-24 |