Video: Tracking fish habitat for a dynamic fisheries management Video: Tracking fish habitat for a dynamic fisheries management

Identification of essential fish habitat by the JRC contributes to the establishment of fish stock recovery areas (Article 8 of the Common Fisheries Policy) and paves the way for a dynamic fisheries management and healthier fisheries sector.

Copernicus use case

Operational Mitigation of Juvenile by-catch Operational Mitigation of Juvenile by-catch

(daily update at 16.00 Central European Time)

Real-time mapping of bottom trawling preferable avoidance

based on habitat estimation of hake nurseries (Druon et al. 2015)


Download real-time maps: full resolution image (.png), or Google Earth (.kmz) for zooming in your area.

 

EN: Download presentation to MEDAC (07/06/2016).

IT: Scaricare la presentazione di Mazara del Vallo (14/10/2016).

FR: Téléchargez la présentation de Sète (13/12/2016).

FR: Téléchargez la présentation de Roses (18/07/2019).

CATALAN: Descarregar la presentacio de Roses (18/07/2019).


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Operational by-catch mitigation of large pelagic fish Operational by-catch mitigation of large pelagic fish

Example of by-catch mitigation product (January 2015-2018) for vulnerable blue shark life stages to fishing in the Google Earth format to facilitate the specific view of (a) the Atlantic Ocean, (b) the eastern Pacific Ocean, (d) the Indian Ocean and a more precise view on (c) Madagascar and (e) New Zealand areas.

 


by-catch product based on blue shark habitat
(habitat maps, publication)

 

Watch and download equivalent maps separated in surface and deep mitigation product (twelve months 2015-2018)

Other example of operational ecology Other example of operational ecology

Potential habitat of fin whale is daily produced in near-real time and sent to a restricted list of users (below the best-performing 11-day composite habitat map with some delay compared to real-time, click on the image for a larger view):