Outcomes of work package 4: Mapping of mesopelagic resources

Reports

• Collated cruise reports with regional maps of distribution and abundance of mesopelagic communities in the North Atlantic focusing on potential fishing areas
  Lead: Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
  
  
• Synthesis report on the stocks, oceanographic relationships, vital rates, ecological position, distribution and dynamics of mesopelagic fauna
  Lead: Fundacion AZTI – AZTI Fundazioa
  
  
• Synthesis report on biomass distribution in the area covered by the MEESO field campaign in relation to environmental variables
  Lead: Marine Institute
  
  
• Synthesis report on the relative roles of passive and active carbon flux
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research
  
  
• Report on e-learning courses/webinars
  Lead: Technical University of Denmark (work package 8) 

Workshops

• Workshop on modelling data requirements
  Lead: University of Strathclyde (work package 5)
  
  
• Workshop on key demographic parameters
  Lead: University of Strathclyde (work package 5)
  
  
• Regional stakeholder and full-feedback workshop on data, parameter, method, and results exchange and on sustainable fisheries, harvest strategies, and resilience of the system
  Lead: Technical University of Denmark (work package 8)

Courses/webinars/videos

• Video on mesopelagic commercial trial fishery
  Lead: Nofima AS (work package 3)
  
  
• Video about mesopelagic sampling on board Arni Fridriksson
  Lead: Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
  
  
• Capture strategies for sampling mesopelagic resources
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research (work package 2)
  
  

Scientific papers

• Scientific papers from the MEESO project

Public outreach

• Cruise campaign blogs with invited journalists
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research (work package 2) & Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
  
  
• Furthermore, the MEESO project will publish news on the meeso.org website and make regular press releases etc. 
  Lead: Technical University of Denmark (work package 8)