Fish otolith age calibration and exchanges are carried out periodically to improve the quality of age data used in age-based stock assessments. These calibrations use online tools for age reading and the statistical analysis are frequently done on Eltink 2000 spreadsheet. With the replacement of this software and Eltink limitations, statistical evaluation was performed using R code. This change has shown clear ...
A campanha PELAGO22 decorreu do dia 01 ao 31 de março de 2022, e foi subdividida em duas partes. A primeira, de 01 a 09 de março, foi realizada a bordo do Navio de Investigação Miguel Oliver e a segunda, de 12 a 31 de março, no Navio de Investigação Vizconde de Eza, num total de 24 dias de trabalho no mar. A necessidade de troca de navio, entre as duas partes, deveu-se ao significativo agravamento de falhas elé...
The assessment of contaminant exposure in marine organisms often focuses on the most toxic chemical elements from upper trophic level species. Information on mid-trophic level species and particularly on potentially less harmful elements is lacking. Additionally, microplastics have been considered emergent contaminants in aquatic environments which have not been extensively studied in species from mid-trophic l...
Standardized Catch-Per-Unit-Effort (CPUE), i.e., data from commercial fisheries that have been statistically modelled to remove fishery dependant effect, are often used in stock assessments as indicators of abundance and biomass. Here we report the outcomes of the workshop on modeling CPUEs that took place virtually on the 3-5 November 2020 and 6-7 January 2021 organized by IPMA and integrated in PNAB/DCF (Nati...