Outcomes of work package 4: Mapping of mesopelagic resources
Planned outcomes of the MEESO project's work package 4.
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) together with Institute of Marine Research and Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
Courses/webinars
- E-learning course/webinar on survey sampling and harvesting techniques covering new monitoring, survey and fishing techniques
Lead: Institute of Marine Research & Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
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)
Videos
- Video and potential manual on best survey and fishing practices
Lead: Institute of Marine Research, Nofima AS (work package 3) & Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (work package 4)
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)