Improve fish stock assessments over a greater range of species and improve management of freshwater, migratory, and marine fisheries, and protected species

Background

The UK’s ambition is for sustainable growth and to manage the impact of COVID-19 on the wider marine economy.

Next steps

Get in touch with ari.comment@go-science.gov.uk

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DEFRA Research and innovation interests GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Real-time ocean control

    SensFish taps into the issue of increasingly prevalent sustainability issue of overfishing, by providing a technical solution consisting of a range of adequate digital technologies to support decision-making. The solutio...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SENSFISH LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project provides a solution for real-time data related to the quantity, location and types of fish in the ocean, which can help in improving fish stock assessments and management of fisheries, but does not specifically address freshwater, migratory, and protected species.

  • Predicting the impacts and consequences of climate change on global fish production

    Climate change (CC) is accelerating and is already affecting marine ecosystems and their services. Coupled climate models and ocean observations indicate that the world's oceans are warming, resulting in changes in ocean...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of East Anglia

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to improve fish stock assessments and management of marine ecosystems, which aligns with the question's objective of improving fish stock assessments and management of freshwater, migratory, and marine fisheries.

  • Population structuring of Cod around the UK; scale, mechanism and dynamics

    Many global marine fisheries have collapsed, or are at record low levels of abundance. Continuing exploitation and the uncertain impacts of climate change are adding further pressures on fish resources. New strategies ar...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on population structuring of Cod around the UK, which is relevant to the question's objective of improving fish stock assessments and management of freshwater, migratory, and marine fisheries. However, it does not directly address the broader range of species and protected species mentioned in the question.

  • Simplifying the assessment and management of fisheries and other natural resources

    This project aims to develop and evaluate an alternative approach to natural resource management, with particular emphasis on fisheries management in Europe. Traditional fisheries assessment models are based on trying to...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Essex

  • Sundarbans fisheries: a model system for the application of landscape ecology and social science approaches to management

    Coastal ecosystems provide important services to human communities, the most well-known being food provision from fishing. Fisheries are critically important, providing food security and income to communities worldwide. ...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow

  • A spatially resolved ecosystem model for the assessment of fisheries

    We aim to construct a spatial multi-species ecosystem model focused on commercially exploited fish in the northern European shelf (47 to 62 degrees N, and -12 to 10 degrees E). Species or functional groups within the mod...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde

  • Monitoring and elimination of bycatch of endangered and conserved species in the NE and high seas Atlantic region.

    Bycatch, the unintentional capture of non-target marine animals during fishing, is considered one of the greatest threats to marine species globally. This threat is particularly significant for protected, endangered and ...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE (CEFAS)

  • Climate change and macroecological patterns in an exploited marine fish assemblage

    There is considerable uncertainly regarding the influence of climate change on structure of marine fish assemblages, yet increasing evidence suggests that maintenance of diversity across trophic levels is key to safeguar...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Bristol

  • University of the West of Scotland and Kames Fish Farming Limited

    To develop in-house diagnostics and fish health assessment knowledge and capability in support of rapid business expansion....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND

  • GO-eFISH: Generating best practise for the use of eDNA for marine fish biodiversity analyses

    Traditional morphological or image-based classification of marine taxa is time-consuming, requires specialist knowledge and is near impossible for certain life forms (e.g. fish eggs). An alternative approach that has lat...

    Funded by: ISCF

    Lead research organisation: APPLIED GENOMICS LTD