”Adaptive management of living marine resources by integrating different data sources and key ecological processes (ADMAR): A joint effort by IMR and CEES”

The objective of the BarEcoRe project is to evaluate the effects of global environmental change on the future structure and resilience of the Barents Sea ecosystem. This will be studied by investigating the effects of past changes in climate and fisheries on the Barents Sea ecosystem, by developing indicators of ecosystem resilience, diversity and structure, and by forecasting the possible future states of the Barents Sea ecosystem under particular environmental and fisheries scenarios.

Collective behaviour of penned herring (CollPen): Observing the collective behaviour and investigating the effect of various sound stimuli. The primary objective of this project is to understand the interaction between direct stimuli and information transfer between individuals in schooling fish and to understand how this affects the collective behaviour, with special emphasis on noise induced behaviour.

Project summary: Understanding and being able to quantify dynamics of the Calanus species complex are crucial for producing realistic forecasts of the climate change effects on the north-east Atlantic ecosystem, including fish stocks.

The goal of the project is to investigate how we can combine acoustic observations with advanced behavioural models. By simulating the acoustic signal from the behavioural models will we investigate how the acoustic signal is affected by changes in behaviour, and whether it is possible to reconstruct the behaviour through the acoustic signal. In the cases that are possible, acoustic observations can be used to validate the theoretical models, while at the same time (in situ) correction factors may be established.

LIFECYCLE is a large collaborative research project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The project is funded within one of the major themes of the Cooperation part of the 7FP; Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology. The major aims of projects in this theme are to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE). In order to do so, focus is placed on areas where current knowledge is lacking and where research has to be carried out on a multinational scale for it to be really effective. One such area (or topic) identified was "Essential biological functions related to the most relevant stages of aquaculture fish life-history",

A joint research project between the Czech Republic and Norway.

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The sound produced by a seismic survey increased catches for some species and reduced them for others. It appears that saithe may have partially migrated out of the area, whilst other species apparently stayed. These are the main findings of the Institute of Marine Research's summer 2009 investigation into the impact of seismic activities off Vesterålen, a project commissioned by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

The main objective for this project is to enable the institute to host a wide suite of marine data, and to make them readily available to researchers and other users. As a first step, a general infrastructure is developed and applied for our field operations. This is a part of IMR’s contribution to the upcoming national marine data centre (NMDC).

Institute of Marine Research and the National Veterinary institute now collaborate on the project  ”Viral Haemorrhagic Septicemia Virus (VHSV) in wild and farmed fish in Norway”. Specialists on VHS from the Danish veterinary institute and FRS Marine Laboratory in Scotland are also taking part in the project. An important part is screening of different wild populations of fish in Norwegian waters. Several research cruises of Institute of marine Research  will be used for this purpose.

Changes in the Calanus complex on both sides of the Atlantic and its possible impact on fish populations

Marine phylogeographic structuring during climate change: the signature of leading and rear edge of range shifting populations. The patterns of marine animal and plant geographical distribution along the shores of Western Europe and the Mediterranean are fairly recent. During glacial phases, the sea surface temperatures along West Europe dropped markedly and the warm temperate organisms must have survived either in the Mediterranean or in areas more to the South, like the West African shore. With the reestablishment of interglacial conditions, the biogeography of West Europe became one where a succession of ranges begin or end along the stretch of coast comprised between the Mediterranean and the Baltic.