Outcomes of work package 2: Survey and sampling technology development

Reports

• Report on the implementation of acoustical, optical and catch methods for enhanced identification and biomass estimation of mesopelagic species
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research
  
  
• Report on the use of enhanced catch and optic methods for accurate quantification of mesopelagic sampling tools
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research
  
  
• Report on the behavior of mesopelagic species to trawls and submersible platforms
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research
  
  
• Report documenting the protocol for abundance estimation of biomass and diversity in the mesopelagic zone
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research
  
  
• Report on e-learning courses/webinars
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research together with Technical University of Denmark (work package 8)

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

• Three workshops to develop mesopelagic abundance estimation protocols
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research

Videos

• Videos 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 & Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (work package 4)
  
  
• Trial fishery campaign blogs with invited journalists
  Lead: Institute of Marine Research & Nofima AS (work package 3)

• 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)