A monitoring strategy for the Barents Sea (Rapport fra Havforskningen nr. 28 - 2013)

The present report is partly the results of work at IMR, partly of discussions with our main cooperative institute, PINRO. While some of the recommendations are definite, work is still ongoing regarding how the present monitoring system should be further developed to secure a timely and effective monitoring of the Barents Sea ecosystem in the various seasons. This work cannot be done by one of the cooperating institutes alone, but further discussion regarding how the present four surveys during autumn-winter could be combined into two joint surveys will take place during January 2014.