Food-web analysis and functional biogeography can provide important insights into the relationship between species composition, diversity, ecosystem functioning, and environmental drivers. This represents invaluable knowledge in a period when communities and ecosystems change due to climate warming and managers seek advice. Climate change triggers poleward shifts in species distribution leading to changes in biogeography. In…
On 9 October 2018, the 1st ClimeFish Roundtable was held in Brussels. 24 participants, including EU policy makers and ClimeFish partners, gathered to discuss how ClimeFish results can feed into future Adaptation Packages on fisheries and aquaculture. The outcome of the talks have been summarised in this easily read one-pager. More information about the roundtable discussions…
Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, 22-23 August 2018 Consortium members from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway (Norway), Syntesa (Denmark), and NTU – Nha Trang University (Vietnam) attended the VIETFISH 2018 conference ‘European Seafood Industry: Competitive and Market Potentials’ in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The conference was organized by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters…
Last week, a group of pupils from Alpilla Upper Secondary School in Helsinki visited Tromsø and the Arctic University. During the time spent at the Fisheries Department, the 16-18-year olds learnt about and discussed several topics, including fisheries, aquaculture and ClimeFish. They were active and engaged, and showed interest in the various topics. Many considered…
The fate of commercial fish in Lipno, the largest reservoir in Czechia, is one of the cases studied in ClimeFish. Two surveys were completed in 2016 and 2017, and a third begins in the last week of August 2018. The previous surveys provided the following: The background for mathematical model of carp population, the most…