Blue Bio Database - Database of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology Projects

The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

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	Fisheries
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Instrument (FP6) Contact Type (FP7) Strand (Interreg)
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	Danish Fishermen's Association
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Summary	Sandeel stocks in the North Sea have experienced successive recruitment failures within the last 5 years. There is an urgent need to develop management tools that may contribute near and long term planning of the sandeel fishery and understand the reasons behind recent recruitment failures. The project has three main goals: (i) To fill some of the current knowledge gaps in the biology of North Sea sandeels and evaluate the North Sea sandeel stock via monitoring programs; (ii) To demonstrate by combining advanced modelling with biological knowledge, that it is possible to generate fishing potential prognoses for sandeel spatially resolved at bank levels, just like ubiquitous whether forecasts, which at sight may be incorporated in the fishery management process; and (iii) To develop the collaboration with the Danish Fishermen's Association (DF) and foster a sustainable sandeel fishery based on increased self regulation within the fishery. The scientific activities in this project relate developing the necessary components, which are a premise for generating fishing potential forecasts. This encompasses computer model code writing and data collection. The efforts have been very successful and a first generation fishing potential forecast has been generated as final products of this project. On the modelling side two model components has been developed. The first is the larval module that describes hydrodynamical transport of sandeel larvae which is determining next year’s recruitment. The second component is the population model which combines the hydrodynamical transport output with available biological data and knowledge into a spatially explicit sandeel stock model. Two fishing vessels take part in the project.
Keywords
	Fish
	Fish biology
	Fisheries management
	Sandeel
	Stock assessment
Marine Region
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); North Sea; Central North Sea (27.IVb)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); North Sea; Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)

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