The Barents Sea is a subarctic shelf sea which has experienced major changes during the past decades. From ecological time-series, three different food-web configurations, reflecting successive shifts of dominance of pelagic ...

Beaked redfish (Sebastes mentella) is one of the few commercially important fish species producing living offspring. Like many other deep-water fishes, it is slow growing, late maturing and long-lived, getting as old as ...

In the Bay of Biscay, regular fisheries acoustic cruises are conducted to assess small pelagic fish stocks. Within the frame of the Bay of Biscay integrated project, measurements of additional biotic and abiotic variables ...

In the Norwegian Sea, assessment of diet composition relies on annual cruise activity combined with visual identification and weight determination of prey from fish stomachs. This weight-based method is labour intensive, ...

Numerical models of ecological systems are increasingly used to address complex environmental and resource management questions. One challenge for scientists, managers, and stakeholders is to appraise how well suited these ...

This document reports on the results of the project 13327 on establishing methods for the surveillance of deepwater resources. After a presentation of the project mandate and background information on past surveys and their ...

Spawning is an important phase for short-lived species like anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) as it ensures the renewal of the population through the recruitment process. Data from the PELGAS (PELagiques GAScogne) surveys, ...