Marine Fisheries Science Advisory Group
In September 2006 Defra set up a new stakeholder group to advise it on priorities for its future sustainable marine fisheries research programme. The interests of scientists, the fishing industry, consumers, recreational anglers, conservation and environmental organisations are all represented on the group.
Third meeting of MFSAG - May 2008
Record of third meeting [PDF] (78 KB)
Presentations given at the meeting:
- Co-ordination of European Marine Fisheries Research Programmes [PDF] (294 KB)
- Population genetics of the Brown Crab [PDF] (433 KB)
- Skate and Ray discard survival - Fisheries Science Partnership [PDF] (870 KB)
- Defra funded R&D project M0738 - key discard issues [PDF] (2.4 MB)
- Fisheries Science Partnership time series survey programmes [PDF] (1 MB)
Second meeting of MFSAG - May 2007
Presentations given at the meeting:
- The shape and content of the new programme and how this reflects comments received from MFSAG [PDF] (93 KB)
- Discussion on priority management questions to be considered by the modellers [PDF] (120 KB)
- Plans for the adoption of an ecosystem-based approach in the SW [PDF] (32 KB)
- Research funded by Defra’s Marine Environment Division and how this is relevant to fisheries management [PDF] (2.76 MB)
- What we have learnt about fish stock movement and how this is being applied to fisheries management [PDF] (1.39 MB)
- Fish stock movement supporting file 1 [.avi - movie file, large file size 12 MB]
- Fish stock movement supporting file 2 [.avi - movie file, large file size 9 MB]
- Climate change impacts on fish stocks: findings from the research we support at SAHFOS [PDF]
- Working with NERC and SEERAD - The Sustainable Marine Bioresources Programme/ Working with our European partners – MariFish [PDF]
- Record of second meeting [PDF] (35 KB)
First meeing of MFSAG - September 2006
If you have any comments please send them to fisheriesscience@defra.gsi.gov.uk or write to:
Marine and Fisheries Science Unit,
Defra Marine and Fisheries Directorate,
Area 7A,
3-8 Whitehall Place,
London SW1A 2HH.
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Page last modified:
25 September 2008
Page published: 14
December 2007