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CONTACT

For general comments and questions, please mail to clupea@clupea.de.
Useful links can be found at the bottom of the page.

. Individuals

The herring website was initiated and is currently maintained by members of the Institut für Seefischerei, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei in Hamburg, Germany. It is open to all scientists and managers interested in herring, and contributions are very welcome. The following list contains those persons who contributed so far (in alphabetical order):

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Name Professional (herring related) experience Fields/stocks of interest

Ad Corten Fisheries biologist since 1968, working on pelagic species at the RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Ex-member of ICES Herring Assessment WG 1972-1995 (chairman 1989-1991), ICES Herring Larvae WG, Herring Survey Planning Group, WG on Young Herring Surveys (later IBTS, co-ordinator 1974-1985). Involved in ICES advice to close the North Sea fishery in 1977 and to re-open it in 1983. Involved in ICES microwire tagging experiment in 1984-1985 and acoustic surveys 1990-1995. Member of ICES Pelagic Committee 1972-1995. Alternative member of ACFM 1992. North Sea herring, hydroacoustics, biology, climatic effects

Bram Couperus Fisheries biologist since 1992, working on pelagic species at the RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment Wg in 1999, the PG for Herring Surveys since 1996 and the PG for Surveys on Pelagic Fish in the Norwegian Sea since 1999. Involved in the EU-Projects "Echoher", "Hersur" I and II, "ASH" I-III. North Sea and Atlanto-Scandian herring, larval surveys, hydroacoustics

Guus Eltink Fisheries biologist since 1980, working on pelagic species at the RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands since. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG (and different Planning Groups for Herring surveys) since 1981. Member of the ICES Pelagic Commitee (now Living Ressources Commitee) and STECF. Involved in the EU-studies "Echoher", "Hersur" I and II, and "ASH" I-III. North Sea herring, larval surveys, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics

Mark Dickey-Collas PhD, fisheries biologists at RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands; 1992-2003 at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Northern Ireland) in Belfast. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1997, of the ICES Study Group on herring assessment and biology in the Irish Sea and adjacent waters (1994), of the ICES SG on the incorporation of process information into stock-recruitment models (1999-2001) and the SG on growth, maturity and condition in stock projections (since 2002). North Sea, West of Scotland and Irish Sea herring, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics, larvae surveys, recruitment dynamics

Paul Fernandes PhD, fisheries biologist since 1992, working on pelagic species and acoustic surveys and analysis at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Chairman of the ICES Planning Group for Herring Surveys (PGHERS) 2000-2003, Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG in 2000. Involved in the EU-projects "GFSA", "Hersur" I and II, "AVITIS". West of Scotland and North Sea herring, hydroacoustics, ROVs

Tomas Gröhsler Dr. rer.nat., fisheries biologist at the Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries Rostock since 1994, member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1994. ACFM member since 2001. Involved in the EU-studies "Baltdat" , "Stock separation...", "New sampling regime..." and "STORE". Baltic herring, hydroacoustics

Cornelius ("Nils") Hammer Dr. habil. rer.nat. (Assoc. Prof.), fisheries biologist since 1981, at the Institute for Sea Fisheries Hamburg since 1995, director of the Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries Rostock since 2002, member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG 1996-1997, member of the Advisory Commitee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) since 1997. Involved in the EU-studies "Echoher", "ASH" I, II and III. North Sea and Atlanto-Scandian herring, hydroacoustics

Emma Hatfield PhD, fisheries biologist since 1987. Since 2000 working on the population biology and stock assessment of pelagic fish species at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment Working Group since 2001. Involved in the EU project "Hergen", scientific co-ordinator of the EU-project "Westher". West of Scotland and North Sea herring, biology

Hjalti í Jákupsstovu Fisheries biologist since 1971, worked on pelagic species at IMR Bergen until 1977 and at the Faroese Fisheries Laboratory Thorshavn since then, Director of this Lab since 1988. Chaired several ICES working groups, like the WG on Atlanto-Scandian herring and capelin 1991-94; member of the Advisory Commitee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) since 1989, re-established the ICES Planning Group on Surveys on Pelagic Fish in The Norwegian Sea (PGSPFN) Atlanto-Scandian herring, hydroacoustics

Ciarán Kelly PhD, fisheries biologist, since 1995 working on pelagic species at the Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1999. Member of ACFM since 2001. Involved in the EU-projects "Sampfish" and "Westher". Celtic Sea herring, West of Ireland herring, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics

Uwe Kils Prof. Dr. habil. rer.nat., fisheries biologist since 1977, worked at the Institute for Marine Research, Kiel University on behavior and energy flow of Baltic Herring schools at the level of the individuum. 1992 chairman of theGLOBEC technology WG for New Optical in situ Systems. Since 1994 Professor at the Rutgers University, New Jersey, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; working goal: in situ quantitative films of particulate- and filter-feeding herring schools for carbon-flow quantifications (see herring.rutgers.edu). Baltic herring, in situ imaging and behavior, carbon flow

John Molloy Fisheries biologist since 1962, working on pelagic species at the the Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG 1969-1999 (the most experienced WG member: 30 yrs unbroken service!), member of the Advisory Commitee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) 1982-1985 and 1994-2001. Member of the ICES Pelagic Commitee (now Living Ressources Commitee). Involved in the EU-project "Sampfish". Member of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Commitee (STECF) of the EU Commission. Celtic Sea herring, West of Ireland herring, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics, tagging

Richard Nash fisheries biologist, since 1988 working on Irish Sea herring at the Port Erin Marine Laboratory, Isle of Man. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1989. Currently co-chair of the ICES Recruitment Processes WG. Involved inthe EU Westher project. Irish Sea herring, commercial sampling, recruitment dynamics

Dave Reid PhD, fisheries biologist, since 1990 working on pelagic species and survey data design and analysis at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Member of the ICES Herring Survey Planning Group since 1990. Member of the ICES Living Ressources Commitee since 2000. Involved in the EU-projects "Biomass", "SEFOS", "Echoher", "ASH", "Cluster", "Hersur" I and II. West of Scotland and North Sea herring, hydroacoustics

John Simmonds Acoustic engineer, since 1973 working on pelagic species and acoustic surveys and analysis at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Head of the Pelagic Group. Member of the ICES HAWG since 1988, chair 1997-2000, member of the PGHERS. Chair of SGEHAP 2001. Involved in the EU-projects "Biomass", "Geostats", "Echoher", Hersur" I and II, "AVITIS" and "Westher". West of Scotland and North Sea herring, hydroacoustics

Christopher Zimmermann Dr. rer.nat., fisheries biologist, since 1997 working on pelagics at the Institute for Sea Fisheries Hamburg, member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG and the Planning Group for herring surveys since 1998. Member of ACFM since 2002. Involved in the EU-studies "Hersur" I and II and the EU project "Westher". Chair of SG REDNOSE 2003. Webmaster of the clupea-site. North Sea herring, hydroacoustics, ecophysiology

. Links

These useful links (e.g. to research institutes working on herring) may help you to obtain more information - please inform us when you would like your institute or organisation to be listed here. The list is far from being complete!

Inter- or non-governmental institutions

ICES: The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark

DG Fish: (ex DG XIV) Directorate General Fish of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

FishBase: A global information system on fishes

Oceanportal of the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Paris, France

MSC: The Marine Stewardship Council, a non-profit NGO which recently certified the Thames herring driftnet fishery

PORT: Maritime Information Gateway of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

Research institutes working on herring

Europe

CEFAS: Center for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, England/UK

DFU/DIFRES: Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Charlottenlund and Hirtshals, Denmark

FIMR: Finnish Institute for Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland

FRC: The Marine Fisheries Services Division of the Marine Institute (ex Fisheries Research Centre), Dublin, Ireland

FRS: Faroese Fisheries Laboratory, Torshavn, The Faroese

IFF: Institute for Fishery Technology and Fish Quality of the Federal Research Agency for Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

IfM: Institute for Marine Research of the University of Kiel, Germany

Ifremer: French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

IMR: Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

IMR: Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil, Sweden

IOR: Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries of the Federal Research Agency for Fisheries, Rostock, Germany

ISH: Institute for Sea Fisheries of the Federal Research Agency for Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

MarLab: The Marine Laboratory of the Fisheries Research Services, Aberdeen, Scotland/UK

MRI: Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland

RIVO: Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, The Netherlands

SFI: Sea Fisheries Institute, Gdynia, Poland

North America

Alaska Department of Fish and Game, AK, USA

DFO: Fisheries and Ocean Canada, different locations, Canada

GMA: Gulf of Maine Aquarium, Portland, ME, USA (herring related pages)

IMCS: Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey

UAF: University of Alaska at Fairbanks, AK, USA (including SFOS, the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences)

WHOI: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Other links

The HERSUR database, containing basic biological and hydroacoustic data from the Herring Acoustic Survey in the North Sea and West of Scotland (accessible so far only for qualified contributors)

Name	Professional (herring related) experience	Fields/stocks of interest
Ad Corten	Fisheries biologist since 1968, working on pelagic species at the RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Ex-member of ICES Herring Assessment WG 1972-1995 (chairman 1989-1991), ICES Herring Larvae WG, Herring Survey Planning Group, WG on Young Herring Surveys (later IBTS, co-ordinator 1974-1985). Involved in ICES advice to close the North Sea fishery in 1977 and to re-open it in 1983. Involved in ICES microwire tagging experiment in 1984-1985 and acoustic surveys 1990-1995. Member of ICES Pelagic Committee 1972-1995. Alternative member of ACFM 1992.	North Sea herring, hydroacoustics, biology, climatic effects
Bram Couperus	Fisheries biologist since 1992, working on pelagic species at the RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment Wg in 1999, the PG for Herring Surveys since 1996 and the PG for Surveys on Pelagic Fish in the Norwegian Sea since 1999. Involved in the EU-Projects "Echoher", "Hersur" I and II, "ASH" I-III.	North Sea and Atlanto-Scandian herring, larval surveys, hydroacoustics
Guus Eltink	Fisheries biologist since 1980, working on pelagic species at the RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands since. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG (and different Planning Groups for Herring surveys) since 1981. Member of the ICES Pelagic Commitee (now Living Ressources Commitee) and STECF. Involved in the EU-studies "Echoher", "Hersur" I and II, and "ASH" I-III.	North Sea herring, larval surveys, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics
Mark Dickey-Collas	PhD, fisheries biologists at RIVO, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden, the Netherlands; 1992-2003 at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Northern Ireland) in Belfast. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1997, of the ICES Study Group on herring assessment and biology in the Irish Sea and adjacent waters (1994), of the ICES SG on the incorporation of process information into stock-recruitment models (1999-2001) and the SG on growth, maturity and condition in stock projections (since 2002).	North Sea, West of Scotland and Irish Sea herring, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics, larvae surveys, recruitment dynamics
Paul Fernandes	PhD, fisheries biologist since 1992, working on pelagic species and acoustic surveys and analysis at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Chairman of the ICES Planning Group for Herring Surveys (PGHERS) 2000-2003, Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG in 2000. Involved in the EU-projects "GFSA", "Hersur" I and II, "AVITIS".	West of Scotland and North Sea herring, hydroacoustics, ROVs
Tomas Gröhsler	Dr. rer.nat., fisheries biologist at the Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries Rostock since 1994, member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1994. ACFM member since 2001. Involved in the EU-studies "Baltdat" , "Stock separation...", "New sampling regime..." and "STORE".	Baltic herring, hydroacoustics
Cornelius ("Nils") Hammer	Dr. habil. rer.nat. (Assoc. Prof.), fisheries biologist since 1981, at the Institute for Sea Fisheries Hamburg since 1995, director of the Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries Rostock since 2002, member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG 1996-1997, member of the Advisory Commitee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) since 1997. Involved in the EU-studies "Echoher", "ASH" I, II and III.	North Sea and Atlanto-Scandian herring, hydroacoustics
Emma Hatfield	PhD, fisheries biologist since 1987. Since 2000 working on the population biology and stock assessment of pelagic fish species at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment Working Group since 2001. Involved in the EU project "Hergen", scientific co-ordinator of the EU-project "Westher".	West of Scotland and North Sea herring, biology
Hjalti í Jákupsstovu	Fisheries biologist since 1971, worked on pelagic species at IMR Bergen until 1977 and at the Faroese Fisheries Laboratory Thorshavn since then, Director of this Lab since 1988. Chaired several ICES working groups, like the WG on Atlanto-Scandian herring and capelin 1991-94; member of the Advisory Commitee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) since 1989, re-established the ICES Planning Group on Surveys on Pelagic Fish in The Norwegian Sea (PGSPFN)	Atlanto-Scandian herring, hydroacoustics
Ciarán Kelly	PhD, fisheries biologist, since 1995 working on pelagic species at the Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1999. Member of ACFM since 2001. Involved in the EU-projects "Sampfish" and "Westher".	Celtic Sea herring, West of Ireland herring, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics
Uwe Kils	Prof. Dr. habil. rer.nat., fisheries biologist since 1977, worked at the Institute for Marine Research, Kiel University on behavior and energy flow of Baltic Herring schools at the level of the individuum. 1992 chairman of theGLOBEC technology WG for New Optical in situ Systems. Since 1994 Professor at the Rutgers University, New Jersey, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; working goal: in situ quantitative films of particulate- and filter-feeding herring schools for carbon-flow quantifications (see herring.rutgers.edu).	Baltic herring, in situ imaging and behavior, carbon flow
John Molloy	Fisheries biologist since 1962, working on pelagic species at the the Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG 1969-1999 (the most experienced WG member: 30 yrs unbroken service!), member of the Advisory Commitee for Fisheries Management (ACFM) 1982-1985 and 1994-2001. Member of the ICES Pelagic Commitee (now Living Ressources Commitee). Involved in the EU-project "Sampfish". Member of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Commitee (STECF) of the EU Commission.	Celtic Sea herring, West of Ireland herring, commercial sampling, hydroacoustics, tagging
Richard Nash	fisheries biologist, since 1988 working on Irish Sea herring at the Port Erin Marine Laboratory, Isle of Man. Member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG since 1989. Currently co-chair of the ICES Recruitment Processes WG. Involved inthe EU Westher project.	Irish Sea herring, commercial sampling, recruitment dynamics
Dave Reid	PhD, fisheries biologist, since 1990 working on pelagic species and survey data design and analysis at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Member of the ICES Herring Survey Planning Group since 1990. Member of the ICES Living Ressources Commitee since 2000. Involved in the EU-projects "Biomass", "SEFOS", "Echoher", "ASH", "Cluster", "Hersur" I and II.	West of Scotland and North Sea herring, hydroacoustics
John Simmonds	Acoustic engineer, since 1973 working on pelagic species and acoustic surveys and analysis at The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Head of the Pelagic Group. Member of the ICES HAWG since 1988, chair 1997-2000, member of the PGHERS. Chair of SGEHAP 2001. Involved in the EU-projects "Biomass", "Geostats", "Echoher", Hersur" I and II, "AVITIS" and "Westher".	West of Scotland and North Sea herring, hydroacoustics
Christopher Zimmermann	Dr. rer.nat., fisheries biologist, since 1997 working on pelagics at the Institute for Sea Fisheries Hamburg, member of the ICES Herring Assessment WG and the Planning Group for herring surveys since 1998. Member of ACFM since 2002. Involved in the EU-studies "Hersur" I and II and the EU project "Westher". Chair of SG REDNOSE 2003. Webmaster of the clupea-site.	North Sea herring, hydroacoustics, ecophysiology