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Progress and activity report. INCOFISH WP 7 at IfM-GEOMAR. Reminder of our key indicators. % mature fish in catch % optimum length fish in catch % mega-spawners in catch % bycatch. Outline of activities. Indicators Review Fish Rulers Data Collection Online tools Publications.
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Progress and activity report INCOFISH WP 7 at IfM-GEOMAR
Reminder of our key indicators • % mature fish in catch • % optimum length fish in catch • % mega-spawners in catch • % bycatch
Outline of activities • Indicators Review • Fish Rulers • Data Collection • Online tools • Publications
Indicators review • D. 7.1. Available on WP 7 downloads page of portal • Modified version presented at IIFET conference in Portsmouth, UK in July 2006 with mixed response.
Fish Rulers (1) • Produced first version, Der Fisch-Max for the western Baltic in Sept. 2005 • Produced „improved“ version including fillet and headless lengths early 2006 • Produced prototypes for the North Sea and the US West Coast • German Verbraucherzentrale and Lighthouse foundation approached us to sponser and design latest version, der Fisch-o-Meter, with press release
Fish Rulers (2) www.fisch-o-meter.de
Data Collection • Gathered maturity and l-f data from ICES, NOAA and other reports from the North Atlantic and Pacific • Added these data to FishBase maturity table for use with online tools • Approx 80 new entries from these areas were made
Online tools • Fish size buying guide (will show later) • Bycatch table (later database tool) • Spreadsheets for use within WP 7
Publications • Common sense approach to Ecosystem-based fisheries management (submitted). • Global cost of overfishing– collaboration with WP 8 and hopefully WP 2