Contact / Links

Responsible for the website is the scientific co-ordinator - please contact Emma Hatfield, FRS Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, for any comments. Please also address general enquiries regarding the WESTHER project to her. If you have specific questions to one of the workpackages or tasks within the project, please contact the respective partners as listed under participants. Initial webdesign and web site setup was done by Christopher Zimmermann, please report errors and broken links to him.

For communication to the whole group, use westher@yahoogroups.com. Messages from outside the registered group will be screened by the Postmaster before they are send to all project partners. All group mails will be archived; log on to the archive here (this requires signing up to yahoogroups)

Useful links for more information on stock identification or herring research and assessment (apart from the parent site of this website, www.clupea.net):

Link Organisation Type of information
ICES International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen state of herring stocks in the North-East Atlantic
HAWG ICES Working Group on the Assessment of Herring South of 62 deg N state of herring stocks in the North-East Atlantic - report downloadable
PGHERS ICES Planning Group on Herring Surveys Planning and evaluation of the annual acoustic and larvae survey in the North Sea and West of Scotland
ACFM ICES Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management Stock summary sheets for herring stocks in the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, West of Ireland, West of Scotland - summary sheets downloadable
EFAN European Fish Ageing Network all kinds of information regarding fish ageing
FAO/FIGIS The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation Information on herring commercial catches world wide
DG Fish European Commission, Directorate General Fisheries (DG IVX) Information on organisation of the agency funding the project and the EU Common Fisheries Policy
Oceanportal of the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Paris all kinds of ocean-related information
FishBase A global information system of all fishes in the world Systematics, common names, biology, photos and much more

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