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SCOR/IOC WG 119 on

Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management

Co-chairs: Philippe Cury (France) and Villy Christensen (Canada)

Full Members Associate Members
Keith Brander (Denmark) Gabriela Bianchi (Norway)
Ratana Chuenpagdee (USA) Pierre Chavance (Senegal)
Kevern Cochrane (Italy) Georgui Daskalov (Bulgaria)
Robert Costanza (USA) Serge Garcia (Italy)
Steven Cousins (UK) Astrid Jarre (Greenland)
Henrik Gislason (Denmark) Kwame Koranteng (Ghana)
Sherry Heileman (France) Raymond Lae (Senegal)
Simon Jennings (UK) Steven Murawski (USA)
Renato Quinoñes (Chile) Daniel Pauly (Canada)
Lynne Shannon (South Africa) Tony Pitcher (Canada)
Michael Sissenwine (USA) Jake Rice (Canada)
A.D.M. Smith (Australia) Marie Joelle Rochet (France)
John Steele (USA)Keith Sainsbury (Australia)
Yunne Shin (France)
Patricia Sunye (Brazil)
Kees Zwanenburg (Canada)

Sponsors: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Marine Fisheries Service, SCOR

Date Approved: October 2000

Date Disbanded:

Terms of Reference

  • To review the current state of knowledge in different marine and terrestrial disciplines relevant to the development of indicators for marine ecosystems (environmental, ecological and fisheries)
  • To review theories (hierarchy, cascade…) and indicators that have been developed in terrestrial ecology and to assess their utility for marine ecosystems.
  • To develop new indicators to study the functional role of species in ecosystems, exploitation and environment using output of multi-species models or available time series (e.g., fish catch statistics….), and using satellites, GIS (Geographic Information System).
  • To apply these indicators in a comparative way to characterize ecosystem states, changes and functioning.
  • To assess the utility of these indicators for management purposes and for the sustainable utilization of renewable resources.

Proposal/Workplan

Meetings:
#1—October 5-6, 2001
Reykavik, Iceland

#2—December 4-6, 2002
Cape Town, South Africa

SCOR-IOC Symposium on Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management
31 March-3 April 2004
Paris, France

Product:Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management - Special Issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 307-614 (May 2005)

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