Environmental Effects on Cephalopod Life History and Fisheries

• Main Authors: Pierce, G.J. (Graham John), Portela, J. (Julio), Robin, J.P. (Jean Paul)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo 2012
• Subjects: North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/848; https://doi.org/10.1051/alr:2005036

Editorial de un número especial de la Revista Aquatic Living Resources The present collection of papers arises from a theme session on “Cephalopod Stocks: Review, Analyses, Assessment, and Sustainable Management” at the 2004 ICES Annual Science Conference, Vigo, Spain. The original proposal for the theme session was justified by the availability of much unpublished information on cephalopod biology and fisheries arising from various CEC-funded R&D projects during the last 15 years. The theme session also related directly to the EC-funded Concerted Action: CEPHSTOCK (Q5CA-2002-00962), and provided a route for dissemination of the review and synthesis work carried out under this project. The theme session was intended to facilitate the wider dissemination and publication of these results, with the long-term aim of informing future management decisions for the major fished stocks of cephalopods in European waters. Any future European research programme, related to cephalopod biology and fisheries, will need to take into account of knowledge acquired on cephalopod populations. The theme session aimed to attract scientists working on cephalopod stocks outside the NE Atlantic as well as those from ICES countries. The scope of the theme session was: • The current state of knowledge on exploited cephalopods (biology, fisheries, environmental relationships, stock identity) in European waters; • Current fishery data collection, stock assessment and management practices for cephalopod capture fisheries world-wide; • The current status of cephalopod culture and the prospects for commercial aquaculture; • Socio-economic issues related to cephalopod fisheries; • Current knowledge of aspects of cephalopod biology and ecology related to their suitability as resource species for capture and culture fisheries, and assessment of environmental factors which affect the immuno-competence and physiology of cephalopods; • Assessment and management options for currently unregulated cephalopod fisheries. The theme session attracted ...