Sustainable Management of Mesopelagic Resources
SUMMER will establish a protocol to accurately estimate mesopelagic fish biomass, quantify the ecosystem services provided by the mesopelagic community (food, climate regulation and potential for bioactive compounds) and develop a decision support tool to measure the trade-offs between the different services.
by summerh2020 5 months ago
DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION⠀ One of the main features of the deep scattering layer is the movement pattern used by some- by summerh2020 2 weeks ago
ONLINE MEETING For two consecutive days the #SUMMERH2020 yearly meeting has been conducted on TEAMS. . . . . . - by summerh2020 7 months ago
ECOSYSTEM AZTI is in charge of the 6th work package. The main objective will be to contribute to the general - by summerh2020 8 months ago
BIOMASS AND VERTEBRATES Fun fact! Did you know that mesopelagic fish are undoubtedly the largest fish biomass in the ocean - by summerh2020 2 months ago
@sintefhq and @azti .brta have published an article on #mesopelagic #fisheries potentials in the NE Atlantic @ICES_ASC @OUPAcademic "Investigating the potential - by summerh2020 6 months ago
SINTEF Ocean is in charge of the work package on #dissemination , #communication and #exploitation of the results of @summerh2020 to - by summerh2020 9 months ago
CARBON STORAGE The fourth work package objective is to estimate the role of mesopelagic organisms on carbon sequestration and climate - by summerh2020 5 months ago
FISHERIES @summerh2020 participants from @sintefhq are authors on a newly released article in Science Direct – Marine Policy, with the - by summerh2020 9 months ago
HIGH VALUE PRODUCTS⠀ The aim of the 5th work package is assessing the potential of mesopelagic micro- and macro-organisms for - by summerh2020 5 months ago
OMEGA-3 Did you know that mesopelagic fish have a high content of Omega-3 (Docosahexaenoic acid -DHA- and eicosapentaenoic acid -EPA-)? - by summerh2020 5 months ago
CLIMATE Did you know that Mesopelagic organisms play an as yet unquantified role in the sequestration of CO2 and therefore - by summerh2020 9 months ago
FOOD-WEB⠀ The third work package in @summerh2020 will investigate the effect of mesopelagic exploration on food-webs. To do this they - by summerh2020 6 months ago
TWILIGHT ZONE ⠀ The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late says some of the - by summerh2020 4 weeks ago
Javier Arístegui et al. (2020) acknowledging @SUMMERH2020 in the paper: “Variability in water-column respiration and its dependence on organic carbon - by summerh2020 6 months ago
THE TWILIGHT ZONE⠀ What is the #mesopelagiczone you may wonder? In short, it is a region of the ocean with - by summerh2020 2 weeks ago
RESEARCH CRUISE⚓️ 2020 fashion of scientific crew on board the RV “Sarmiento de Gamboa” for the SUMMER project. . . - by summerh2020 1 month ago
IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO THE MESOPELAGIC FISHES OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH EAST ATLANTIC OCEAN FAO have produced the mesopelagic fish - by summerh2020 8 months ago
COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION ⠀ #sintefocean is in charge of the work package on dissemination, communication and exploitation of the - by summerh2020 9 months ago
ECOSYSTEMS⠀ GEOMAR is in charge of SUMMERs 6th work package. The main objectives will be to contribute to the general - by summerh2020 4 months ago
MESOPELAGIC Mesopelagic fish are the largest and last wild living resource that humanity has not yet exploited, and therefore this