Acronym GOFORIT
Category
Fisheries
Title IntelliGent Oceanographically-based short-term fishery FORecastIng applicaTions Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Brian MacKenzie Coordinator email brm@aqua.dtu.dk
Coordinator institution
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Institutions involved
CFRI - Central Fisheries Research Institute (Turkey) ,
IFME - Institute of Fisheries and Marine Ecology (Ukraine) ,
MRI - Marine Research Institute (Iceland) ,
METU-IMS - Middle East Technical University; Institute of Marine Sciences (Turkey) ,
INCDM “Grigore Antipa” - National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" (Romania) ,
Start year 2015 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 675,000 Website http://www.goforit-cofasp.net/ Summary The project "Intelligent Oceanographically‐Based Short‐Term Fishery Forecasting Applications" (GOFORIT) investigates four economically important fish species from the North and South of Europe: North Sea sandeel, Icelandic capelin, Black Sea anchovy and Black Sea sprat. These species all can be classified as short lived fish species.
Fisheries for short lived species are highly variable because they primarily target a low number of age groups within stocks as well as irregularly recruiting year-classes. As a result, environmental fluctuations (e.g., temperature, food abundance), which cause major changes in fish productivity, can lead to rapid fluctuations in fishing opportunities and stock declines if fishing effort is not reduced accordingly. Such fluctuations are not foreseen or accommodated by management advisory frameworks for short-lived species, which generally assume environmental stability and constant productivity.
The GOFORIT project will use climatic and oceanographic process knowledge with the goal to improve short-term fishery forecasts
Keywords
Fish;
Fisheries management;
Sprat;
Anchovy;
Sandeel;
Marine Region
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
36
Iceland Grounds (27.Va)
59
Black Sea (GSA 29)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
5
Marine Region Map
