Acronym NESPMAN
Category
Fisheries
Title Improving the knowledge of the biology and the fisheries of the new species for management Programme DG MARE
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 European Coordinator Sten Munch-Petersen Coordinator email smp@aqua.dtu.dk
Coordinator institution
WUR-IMARES - Wageningen University and Research; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (Netherlands)
Institutions involved
NA - Azti (Spain) ,
CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (United Kingdom) ,
EV ILVO - Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Belgium) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
DTU-AQUA - Technical University of Denmark; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Denmark) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 499,889 Website https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/projects/improving-the-knowledge-of-the-biology-and-the-fisheries-of-the-n Summary The NESPMAN (New Species for Management) project is meant to improve the knowledge of the biology and the fisheries of the new species for management. Apart from highly priced turbot, brill, striped red mullet and sea bass, these 12 species comprise also 3 gurnard species and 4 flatfishes. This report presents information for these 12 species that are becoming increasingly important for fisheries in NW Europe, partly due to the generally poor state of some of the main commercial fish species.
The first objective of this study is to collate the available information on biological parameters, stock identity, and composition of catches and landings of the species dealt with by the ICES Working Group on the Assessment of New MoU Species (WGNEW). This is basic information when the state of a fish stock must be assessed. In European waters many research vessel surveys are carried out, targeting recruits or adults of different commercially important species. When the catch composition is analysed, not only data for the commercial species are collected, but usually length compositions are collected for all species in the catch, including the species listed above. Also, on a small scale, otoliths and biological data for other species has been collected as well. This study will analyse data from surveys in order to investigate (changes in) distribution and abundance, as well as provide information on age compositions and biological parameters. In the DCR details are provided on the monitoring of catches and landings of a large number of species. Another objective of this study is to describe in detail which information should in the future be collected for these NEW species, in order to better assess the state of these resources, and also in order to enable ICES to start providing advice for the management of these resources.
Keywords
Turbot;
Catch;
Brill;
Red mullet;
Fish;
Landing;
Fish biology;
Seabass;
Flatfish;
Marine Region
7
Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
8
Bristol Channel (27.VIIf)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
4
Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
24
Sound, Belt Sea or Transition Area (27.IIIb,c)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
9
Western English Channel (27.VIIe)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
11
Marine Region Map
