Cephalopod Resources Dynamics:
Patterns in Environmental and Genetic Variation
(Research supported by the CEC, FAIR Contract 1520)
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ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED
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Contact names and e-mails |
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University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK (Co-ordinator) |
Peter Boyle p.r.boyle@abdn.ac.uk Graham Pierce g.j.pierce@abdn.ac.uk Emma Greatorex Cathy Jones c.s.jones@abdn.ac.uk Jianjun Wang j.wang@abdn.ac.uk |
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British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK |
Paul Rodhouse p.rodhouse@bas.ac.uk Phil Trathan p.trathan@bas.ac.uk Claire Waluda claire.waluda@bas.ac.uk |
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University of Hull, Hull, UK |
Paul Shaw |
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Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department (SOAEFD) Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK |
Nick Bailey baileyn@marlab.ac.uk Bill Turrell turrellb@marlab.ac.uk |
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University of Cork, Cork, Ireland |
Tom Cross t.cross@ucc.ie Colm Lordan Eileen Dillane |
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Université de Caen, France |
Jean-Paul Robin robin@ibba.unicaen.fr |
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Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain |
Eduardo Balguerias ebg@ieo.rcanaria.es Maria Fernandez Catalina Perales Raya |
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Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain |
Julio Portela julio.portela@vi.ieo.es |
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Instituto Português de Investigação Marítima (IPIMAR), Lisbon, Portugal |
Ana Moreno amoreno@ipimar.pt Manuela Cunha mmcunha@ipimar.pt Joao Pereira jpereira@ipimar.pt |
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Institute Of Marine Biology Of Crete, Heraklion, Greece |
Tasso Eleftheriou imbc@imbc.gr Drosos Koutsoubas Andonis Magoulas magoulas@imbc.gr |
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Institut Francais de Recherche por l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Brest, France |
Herve Troadec |
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Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB), Brest, France |
Jean le Bihan Jean.Le_Bihan@ys.enib.fr |
DESCRIPTION
The project's objectives were:
1. To develop a GIS system for cephalopod fisheries in European waters and to integrate fishery, survey, and environmental data at appropriate temporal and spatial scales.
2. To refine the quantitative description of seasonal and inter-annual patterns of distribution and abundance of fished cephalopods and to develop models to predict their abundance from biotic and physical oceanographic parameters.
3. To use microsatellite DNA variation as an indicator of stock structure and interactions of neritic and oceanic cephalopod resources through the use of DNA marker "tags", supplemented with allozyme and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies to clarify selected problems of systematics.
4. To integrate the new environmental and genetic approaches with recent findings on biological variability in the European cephalopod populations of the north east Atlantic and Mediterranean, to determine whether this variation is due to plasticity of responses to environmental conditions or due to underlying genetic variation.
The final report was delivered to the CEC in 2000. A number of publications on GIS, genetics and biology have subsequently appeared (see publications page).
For further information contact Graham Pierce or Peter Boyle
