VISTools helps improve fisheries management by collecting high-resolution data directly from fishing vessels. By combining sensors, real-time monitoring and collaboration with fishers, the project sup...
Fisheries data
...lve from year to year? What is the biological, economic and technical situation of the recreational fisheries? The objective is to use data collection techniques, specifically aimed at recreational...
...ates? Frictions or disruptive changes in the existing system? The project approaches the innovative fisheries monitoring system holistically: in addition to the technological issues, the researcher...
The central goal of the Infinifish-project is to address climate-driven challenges in fisheries. Practical innovations are developed or optimized across the entire fisheries value chain.
The ECOSCOPE project aims at improved fisheries management that balances a healthy marine ecosystem with sustainable fisheries.
...potential fish stocks in the region. This is nevertheless a requirement of the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement (CAOFA) before sustainable fisheries management can or will be implemented in...
How do fish stocks evolve from year to year for a number of commercial fish species that are important for the Belgian fisheries?
...(Cydalima perspectalis) in Flanders' (link to PURE), funded by the Flemish Fund for Agriculture and Fisheries of Department of Agriculture & Fisheries. ILVO and the Proefcentrum voor Sierteelt ...
...en sustainable soil management.ILVO works together with the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries to open up soil data via a soil passport. Healthy soil as part of the system Th...
... newer, more sensitive and high performance detection methods 1H NMR Profiling and LC-HRMS. Fisheries products (fish, shellfish) ILVO performs DNA based identification methods on proce...
...of the total area of the North Sea. Many activities and functions converge in this small area: FisheriesMariculture (growing food at sea)Renewable energy production (wind farms)DredgingExtracti...
...r>At the request of companies, organisations or NGOs, sustainability assessments can be drawn up of fisheries and landed fish species. These can be used for buyers/clients to highlight the sustaina...
Fisheries Impact Assessment Albania - ILVO mededeling 283
...ns. The project forms the basis for further applications of synthetic data in machine vision within fisheries.Research approachThe project is structured around four main components. The fir...
...ting scientific models. VISIM III thus makes an important contribution to sustainable and efficient fisheries management.Research approachThe project combines state-of-the-art image recogni...
The annual Fisheries Science Seminar, organised by the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) will take place on 25 September 2024. This year's seminar will focus on the pote...
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Read the "ILVO mededeling" nr 276: Microplastics in seafood from Belgian fisheries areas
The main aim was to assess the exposure of the consumer of Belgian fisheries products to microplastics.
© Vince Bevan | GIFS Interreg project ILVO and VLIZ, together with local actors in Flanders fisheries, are entering into a close collaboration in the framework of the 'Brexit Adjustment Reserve' ...
...monly landed fish species are sole, plaice, squid, skate and shrimp. This emerges from the biennial Fisheries Report of the Agency for Agriculture and Sea Fisheries presented today by Flemish Minis...
...ining. This is confirmed by the 2022 report of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) on the health status of fish in Europe. Thus, the positive trends observed in t...
...ity of live caught fish. A series of video clips allows us to train students, veterinarians and fisheries researchers, but we can also compare a series of interpretations of the same clips by diffe...
Read the "ILVO mededeling" nr 275: Distribution and sources of macrolitter on the seafloor of Belgian fisheries areas
...h marine area is evaluated annually. The ILVO experts are the main suppliers of data on the Belgian fisheries. After that, on the basis of the Belgian data and those of all other countries involved...
Scientific background report in preparation of fisheries measures to protect the bottom integrity and the different habitats within the Belgian part of the North Sea - August 2021
... sustainable. This research focuses on residual flows from agriculture, horticulture, agri-food and fisheries, such as plant fibers, used cultivation substrates, shellfish waste (source of chitin),...
...nCounts. Roadmap and action platform ILVO and Flanders’ Department of Agriculture and Fisheries will carry out a system analysis in close consultation with stakeholders (agricultural or...
The Flemish fishery policy aims to make its fisheries more sustainable, which means, among other things, further addressing the problem of seabed disturbance. Concretely, this means that the results o...
...ce estuaries and coastal ecosystems provide many other ecosystem services in addition to supporting fisheries, their protection is in many ways a win-win situation for all parties concerned".
...ishing we mean the development and application of innovative techniques and high-tech solutions for fisheries. These should allow for more and better data collection, more selective fishing with le...
ILVO researches opportunities for the combined use of space for mariculture and other activities (wind turbine parks, fisheries, etc.)
...is evaluated annually. Mainly ILVO experts are the ones collecting and supplying data about Belgian fisheries. These sea-going observers are responsible for collecting length, weight and age data o...
Ecosystem-based models that can test fisheries management policies to analyse the resilience of the ecosystem and fish stocks.
Linked Research projects: Ecosystem based management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems
This ILVO-coordinated research project focuses on making fuel consumption in Belgian fisheries more sustainable and efficient.