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Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems
The Tenth International Training Course on Biodiversity in Mangrove Ecosystems, sponsored by UNU-INWEH-UNESCO, will be held at the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Annamalai University, India from October 1-15, 2010. More…
FARO Project
A new CSA-funded programme, FARO (Fisheries Applications in Remotely sensed Ocean colour), was launched in Spring 2010. To go to the FARO website, click here…
SAFARI International Symposium, Feb. 2010
Links to proceedings and MarineBizTV video clips from the SAFARI International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Fisheries (February 15-17, 2010, Kochi, India) can be found here…
IOCCG Monograph
IOCCG Report 8, entitled "Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture", has been published and is now available for distribution. A digital copy can be found here…
Science Articles
A series of Spring 2009 articles in Science takes a look at shrimp populations, algal blooms and climate change. More…
Homage to David Cushing: Applications of satellite remote sensing in fisheries oceanography and the ecosystem approach to fisheries
Held in Nice, France - January 25-30, 2009
The concept of ecosystem-based fisheries management or the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) has been in development for over a decade. However, operational implementation of the concept remains elusive. This is partly due to data constraints at scales relevant to fisheries applications. For example, near real-time information on large spatial (fish stock area) and short temporal (days~weeks~months) oceanographic processes influencing survival and recruitment of the larvae of commercial fish stocks is difficult to acquire. Remotely-sensed data, including ocean colour, sea-surface temperature and altimetry from satellites, can alleviate these constraints for arguably the most important environmental factors relevant to fisheries: food availability, temperature and water movements. This session will be devoted to current research and operations in fisheries oceanography that uses remotely-sensed data applied to stock assessments; stock management in the medium term; fisheries harvesting methods; and contributions to the ecosystem approach in the broadest sense. This session builds on the international initiative SAFARI and is dedicated to David Cushing (1920-2008), a pioneer in fisheries oceanography.
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