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Fisheries management for the future / Fisheries management for the future
This report is the final report to AVS in the Fisheries Management for the Future project, which was partly funded by the AVS Research Fund. This is Sigríður Sigurðardóttir's doctoral project in industrial engineering, where the main subject is modeling in fisheries management. The project itself, which is about halfway through, is part of two larger European projects, EcoFishMan and Badminton. This is not a standard final report as the project has not been completed, but the results of the work components and the detailed methodology will be available in the interim or final reports of both projects when they are published. Similarly, it is planned to publish the results in peer-reviewed articles. This report describes the European projects as a whole, then describes the areas covered by the AVS grant. Methodology and implementation are reported. The badminton project focuses on discard research and its causes. The work component that the Fisheries Management will cover in the future included a systematic analysis of methods for reducing discards, as the result is a kind of tool that fisheries managers can use in decision-making. The EcoFishMan project is intended to be a contribution to the review of the European Union's fisheries management system and focuses on co-operation. The work described here is about modeling grayling fishing in Iceland.
This is a final report to the AVS fund in the project Fisheries management for the future, which was partly funded by the AVS research fund. The project is a part of Sigriður Sigurðardottir's PhD in industrial engineering, where the main topic is to develop simulation modes on fisheries management. Sigriður's PhD, which is half-way done, is a part of two larger European projects, EcoFishMan and Badminton. This report therefore only report's on intermediate results in the larger contents. Further information will be available in reports and publications connected with EcoFishMan and Badminton. This report contains brief descriptions of the European projects and more detailed coverage of the progress, methodology and results in the work funded by AVS. Badminton is a project that focuses on the discarding problem in European waters. Fiskveiðistjórnun til framtíðar contributed to the project by analyzing mitigating measures and developed a kind of a decision support tool for resource managers to assist with decision making. EcoFishMan is a project that is to contribute to the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy of the EU, by implementing co-management and results-based management into European fisheries management. The part of EcoFishMan covered in this report describes simulation modeling for the Icelandic lumpfish fishery, which is a case study in EcoFishMan.