IN EX FISH - Incorporating extrinsic drivers into fisheries management
This is an EU funded project that aims to increase the responsiveness of fisheries management to a range of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forcing factors.
Recent years have seen fish stocks reach unprecedented low levels. While the fishing industry has been keen to identify pollution and global warming as the causes, it is also clear that fishing has removed large numbers of fish and altered the way the ecosystem works. Everybody would like to see the rebuilding of fish stocks and this can only be achieved if we understand all of the influences, human and natural, on fish dynamics.