Working Group on International Pelagic Surveys (WGIPS)

• Main Authors: Auton, Urbano, Bjarnason, Sigurvin, Berg, Florian, Campanella, Fabio, Carrera, Pablo, Couperus, Bram, Gastauer, Sven, Hoines, Age, Homrum, Eydna i, Jacobsen, Jan Arge, Johnsen, Espen, Kelly, Ruth, Krysov, Alexander I., Kvamme, Cecilie, Maersk Lusseau, Susan, Mackinson, Steven, McNeill, Gavin, Nash, Richard, Nottestad, Leif, O'Connell, Steven, O'Donnell, Cieran, O'Malley, Michael, Salthaug, Are, Schaber, Matthias, Smith, Leon, Stenevik, Erling Kåre, van der Kooij, Jeroen, Vatnehol, Sindre, Wieczorek, Alina Madita
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ICES 2022
• Subjects: Text; ddc:590; ddc:310; Pelagic ecosystem surveys > herring stocks > sprat stocks > mackerel stocks > boarfish stocks > blue whiting stocks > Northeast Atlantic regions > Norwegian Sea > North Sea > Western Baltic > Surveys > Ecosystem monitoring > fishery surveys > PGNAPES database > HERAS > WGAcousticGov > TAF > MEESO > MIK > IBWSS; Norwegian Sea; Kattegat; Nordic Seas; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.20502822; https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00085614; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/openagrar_derivate_00051644/dn065838.pdf

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 databases used to store data from surveys in WGIPS (ICES Acoustic Database and the “PGNAPES” database), developments and use of the acoustic survey analysis software “StoX” and progress on adopting the ICES Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) for archiving and documenting acoustic index calculations, and (3) a session on biological sampling strategies in WGIPS surveys. The group is documenting the sampling strategies used in all WGIPS surveys (on request from ICES Working group on Acoustic Trawl Data Portal Governance (WGAcousticGov) and is planning a workshop on sampling strategies in the ICES Coordinated Acoustic Survey in the Skagerrak and Kattegat, the North Sea, West of Scotland and the Malin Shelf area (HERAS). The group also reviewed progress on mesopelagic sampling with an update from the European Union Horizon 2020-programme on Ecologically and Economically Sustainable Mesopelagic Fisheries (MEESO), presentations on new net developments for the International Blue Whiting Spawning Survey (IBWSS) and ...