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Managing Fisheries to conserve ground fish and benthic invertebrates species diversity
www.bfa-fish.de/ish/projects/proj_mafcons.html
www.Mafcons.org

Funder identifier: Q5RS-2002-00856 (Other contract id)
Acronym: MAFCONS
Period: January 2003 till June 2006
Status: Completed

Thesaurus terms: Benthos; Conservation; Fisheries
Geographical term: ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight [Marine Regions]
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Institutes (7)  Top | Publications | Dataset 
  • Ghent University; Faculty of Sciences; Biology Department; Marine Biology Section (MARBIOL), more
  • Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO), more
  • Senckenberg Nature Research Society; Research Institute and Natural History Museum; Department of Marine Science, more
  • Institute of Marine Research (IMR), more
  • University of Wales Swansea; Biological Sciences
    • Lancaster, John, co-ordinator
    • Callaway, Ruth, principal investigator
  • Fisheries Research Service; Marine Laboratory (FRS), more, co-ordinator
    • Greenstreet, Simon
  • European Commission; Fifth Framework Programme, sponsor

Abstract
This project is the third one in a series of projects dealing with biodiversity of fishes and benthos in the North Sea. Testing of new gears, preparation of a new electronic field guide to determine the fish and benthos species and data gathering and evaluation on a species level were the main tasks in the first two projects.
This new project has six main objectives:

  1. To provide the scientific advisors to fisheries managers with the mathematical tools that would allow them to quantify the consequences to groundfish and benthic invertebrate species diversity of achieving particular fisheries objectives.
  2. To develop the ecological theory, including rigorous hypothesis testing, necessary to underpin any mathematical tool designed to enable the impact of various fisheries strategies on groundfish and benthic species diversity to be explored.
  3. To derive a detailed understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns of disruption, or disturbance, to the ecosystem caused by fishing.
  4. To determine spatial variation in benthic invertebrate productivity across the study area in each of two years.
  5. To determine spatial variation in groundfish species diversity across the study area.
  6. To determine the relationship between landings and the pattern of fishing effort needed to attain these catches.

Dataset  Top | Institutes | Publications 
  • Mafcons: Managing Fisheries to conserve ground fish and benthic invertebrates species diversity: infauna database, more

Publications (13)  Top | Institutes | Dataset 
  • Fraser, H.; Greenstreet, S. (2004). 1st annual report on groundfish assemblage species composition and diversity. MAFCONS Report, 2004: 001. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 80 pp.
  • Robinson, L.; Robertson, M. (Ed.) (2005). Analysing patterns in epibenthic biodiversity and productivity in the North Sea and to the west of Scotland. MAFCONS Report, 2004: 002. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 84 pp.
  • Robinson, L. et al. (2005). Calculating indices of ecological disturbance based on fishing effort data. MAFCONS Report, 2004: 005. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 34 pp.
  • Robinson, L.; Robertson, M.; Craeymeersch, J.A. (Ed.) (2005). Estimating secondary production from the epifaunal and infaunal macrobenthos. MAFCONS Report, 2004: 004. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 37 pp.
  • Greenstreet, S. (2007). MAFCONS Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity: Final Report. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 838 pp.
  • Lancaster, J. (2004). MAFCONS Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity Project Progress Report. University of Wales Swansea. School of Biological Sciences: Swansea. 71 pp.
  • Lancaster, J. (2005). MAFCONS Managing Fisheries to Conserve Groundfish and Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity Project Progress Report 2nd Reporting Period. University of Wales Swansea. School of Biological Sciences: Swansea. 84 pp.
  • . MAFCONS Report. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory.
  • Greenstreet, S. (2005). Managing Fisheries To Conserve Groundfish And Benthic Invertebrate Species Diversity Mafcons. 5.1.2 Sustainable Fisheries And Aquaculture: technical annex. Version 2.01. University of Wales Swansea. School of Biological Sciences: Swansea. 41 pp.
  • Callaway, R.; Robinson, L.; Greenstreet, S.P.R. (Ed.) (2003). Revised methods manual. MAFCONS Report, 2003:001. [S.n.]: Aberdeen. 81 pp.
  • Robinson, L. (Ed.) (2003). The ecological disturbance of fishing in demersal fish and benthic invertebrate communities. MAFCONS Report, 2003: 003. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 40 pp.
  • Greenstreet, S. et al. (2005). The relationship between fishing effort and catch. MAFCONS Report, 2004: 003. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 121 pp.
  • Greenstreet, S.P.R. (Ed.) (2003). The theory of community structure: applications in marine ecosystems. MAFCONS Report, 2003: 002. Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory: Aberdeen. 90 pp.

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