See the slideshow presenting the project here. We will soon incorporate scenario results into fisheries management plans for policymakers.
Preliminary outcomes now allow us to simulate the (2025) fishing activities of Danish vessels over 12 meters in length as they seek a good catch around Denmark on different resources. The following short animation presents the kind of first results we will get out of this simulation:
Disclaimer: This animation is a rough simulation provided for illustrative purposes and does not represent the vessels’ past activities.
Francois Bastardie is a DTU-Aqua Senior Scientist and method developer in the Section of Ecosystem-based Marine Management with a Ph.D. in Biological Science. He has been involved in several national and EU Funded projects developing expertise in spatial fisheries and fisheries databases. He has a strong background in modeling fishing and the bio-economic dynamics including developing agent-based models for combining marine ecosystems and natural resource extraction models, fisheries economics in a mixed fisheries perspective. He has an experience of 10 years leading to more than 35 peer-reviewed publications by conducting scientific-based fisheries management evaluation with scenario-testing evaluation and simulations, including fleet dynamics and consequences on the economy of fisheries, population dynamics and fish stock assessment. He was in charge of the evaluation of some of the EU long-term fisheries management plans with consequent participation to ICES and STECF working groups, including giving advise from regional to international policy makers.
