Working Group on International Pelagic Surveys (WGIPS) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES Scientific Reports 2024
• Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Technologies and data; Fisheries and aquaculture; Atlantic, Northeast ICES Ecoregion; FAO area 27; Greater North Sea ICES Ecoregion; Baltic Sea ICES Ecoregion; Norwegian Sea ICES Ecoregion; Norwegian Sea; Nordic Seas; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.20502822; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Working_Group_on_International_Pelagic_Surveys_WGIPS_/20502822

The core objectives of the Working Group on International Pelagic Surveys (WGIPS) are to combine and review the results of annual pelagic ecosystem surveys to provide indices for the stocks of herring, sprat, mackerel, boarfish, and blue whiting in the Northeast Atlantic, Norwegian Sea, North Sea, and Western Baltic; and to coordinate timing, coverage and methodologies for the upcoming 2022 surveys. To support this work, the group is drafting an update to the Series of ICES Survey Protocols 9 - Manual for International Pelagic Surveys (SISP9-IPS). This past year, WGIPS held a number of focal sessions including: (1) a session for presenting auxiliary monitoring of ecosystem components beyond the standard fishery survey results for the target species. This session has been held annually since 2019, with presentations this year on tests with an in-trawl stereo camera system during part of the 2021 International Ecosystem Summer Survey in the Nordic Seas (IESSNS), (2) a session on the future and development of ...