Natural mortality in fish populations during early life stages

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Funding country

Norway

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Start date

1/1/2017

End date

12/31/2017

Budget

18,450 EUR

Fundings

Abstract

The NAMOR workshop will bring together fisheries scientists from Norwegian and International institutions (15 researchers from four countries: USA, Russia, Germany, and Norway) to improve our understanding and predictions of fish productivity, geographical distribution, and resistance to climate change. Mortality of young fish (eggs and larvae) will be a main focus. The first goal of the workshop is to improve predictions of the number of new fish entering the fisheries by better understanding how climate change affects fish larvae. This prepares the ground for applying climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to study the effect of environmental change on survival of fish eggs and larvae. The second goal of the workshop is to develop and apply new methodology to understand how fish is constrained to different local environments depending on its age. Four topics will be pursued during the workshop: 1. Timing of key events during a fish's lifetime, spatial constraints 2. Change of mortality with location and age of the fish. 3. Predicting fish ecology in a future climate. 4. Is mortality lower for bigger individuals? These topics will form the basis for a series of manuscripts that are being prepared for discussion and publication during the NAMOR workshop in 2018.