Glossary
Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission
The main objectives of the Commission are to facilitate the coordination of research, encourage education and training, and assist its members in establishing rational policies to promote the rational management of resources that are of interest for two or more countries. The Commission has an advisory management function but has no regulatory powers.
http://www.fao.org/fi/body/rfb/WECAFC/wecafc_mandate.htm
West European Fish Technologists’ Association (Vereinigung der Westeuropäischen Fisch Technologen)
Multidisciplinary approach to the identification of herring (Clupea harengus L.) stock components west of the British Isles (EU-Projekt)
Working Group on Application of Genetics in Fisheries and Mariculture (ICES)
Working Group Baltic Salmon and Trout Assessment
Working Group on Beam Trawl Surveys (ICES)
Working Group on Biological Effects of Contaminants
Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group
Baltic International Fish Survey Working Group
ICES/GLOBEC Working Group on Cod and Climate Change
Working Group on Crangon Fisheries and Life History
Working Group on the Biology and Assessment of Deep-Sea Fisheries Resources
Working Group on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing Activities
Working Group on Eels
Working Group on ecosystem monitoring and management
Working Group on the Effects of Marine Sediments on the Marine Ecosystem
Working Group on Fisheries Acoustic Science & Technology
Working Group on Fish Ecology
Working Group on Fishing Technology & Fish Behaviour
The Working Group's activities shall focus on all measurements and observations pertaining to both scientific and commercial fishing gears, design and statistical methods and operations including benthic impacts, vessels and behaviour of fish in relation to fishing operations. The Working Group shall provide advice on application of these techniques to aquatic ecologists, assessment biologists, fishery managers and industry.
Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals
Working Group on International Bottom Trawl Survey
Working Group on Marine Data Management
The ICES Working Group on Marine Data Management provides a forum for the exchange of expertise and ideas for those involved in marine data management in ICES Member Countries, and the provision of advice to the ICES Secretariat, in particular to the Oceanography Secretary. The Working Group is involved in the setting of standards for the quality assurance and exchange of oceanographic data, monitoring and encouraging the flow of data to the ICES Oceanographic Data Bank (and other international centres, in particular World Data Centre-A (Oceanography) for the Global Ocean Data Archeaology and Rescue (GODAR) project). Members of the Institute for Sea Fisheries involved: M. Stein. More information: http://www.ices.dk/committe/occ/mdm/.
Working Group for Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys
The mackerel and horse mackerel egg surveys are carried out every third year with the contribution of Portugal, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway and Germany. Each country contributes with shiptime and manpower, for the collection and analysis of egg samples and gonad samples from the adult females. The survey area stretches from southern Portugal to west of the Hebrides. The surveys start with the onset of the spawning period in early January off Portugal and ends in July north of Ireland. The abundance indices derived from the sampling are the most important information on the status of mackerel and horse mackerel stocks in the NE Atlantic. They provide the only fishery-independent information on the stock development and are as such of very high importance. The next survey will be carried out in 2001. For more details see www.ices.dk, the report can be downloaded from http://www.ices.dk/committe/lrc/wg/wgmegs/wgmegs.htm. Information on a related Workshop on Stageing of Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Eggs (WKMHME, Lowestoft, Dec. 2000) is available at http://www.ices.dk/committe/lrc/wg/wkmhme/wkmhme.htm. Member of the working group is Dr. C. Zimmermann.
Working Grop on Marine Habitat Mapping
Working Group on the Assessment of Mackerel, Horse Mackerel, Sardine and Anchovy
Working Group on Marine Mammals Population Dynamics and Habitat
Working Group on Marine Sediments in Ralation to Pollution
Working Group on the Assessment of Northern Shelf Demersal Stocks
Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak
Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography
The ICES Working Group Oceanic Hydrography consists of oceanographic experts from ICES member countries. During the annual meetings climatic issues of the North Atlantic Ocean, as well as technical questions are considered. Since some years this group edits the ICES Annual Ocean Climate Status Summary. Some excerpts from the terms of reference: - Update and Review of Results From Standard Sections and Stations; - Review of Progress in National and International Projects in the North Atlantic; - Review of Information on Surface and Sub-surface Drifting Buoy Initiatives; - Review of North Atlantic Climatologies; - Discussion of the Research Project on Radioactive Tracers in the Nordic Seas; - Review of the Operational Use of New Oceanographic Equipment; - Consideration of Oceanographic Data Sets in Danger of Being Lost; - Consideration of Possible Future Directions for the Oceanography Committee; - Consideration of Data Products That Can Be Provided Via the ICES Website. Members of the Institute for Sea Fisheries involved: M. Stein. More information: The ICES Annual Ocean Climate Status Summary can be obtained from http://www.ices.dk/status/clim9900/.
Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms
Working Group on Recruitment Processes
Working Group on Statistical Aspects of Environmental Monitoring
Working Group on Surveys on Pelagic Fish in the Norwegian Sea
Fisheries Statistics Liasison Working Group
Germany has been an active whaling nation until the outbreak of World War II. Frisian Islands and some ports along the River Elbe, such as Glückstadt and Hamburg, were well known whaling ports in the 18th and 19th century. The last heydays of German whaling occurred from 1936 to 1939 when a number of whaling fleets operated in the Southern Ocean starting with the 'Jan Wellem' fleet in 1936. German whaling came to an end at the beginning of World War II. Germany was not allowed to take up commercial whaling again by the Allies after World War II. However, a large number of German whalers served in the 'Olympic Challenger' whaling fleet of Aristoteles Onassis from 1951 to 1956. Germany became a member of the International Whaling Commission in 1982. Since then, Germany is actively involved in the protection of whale stocks worldwide. The German commissioner in the IWC is usually a member of the Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry (BML) in Bonn. The German representative in the Scientific Committee is sent by the Institute for Sea Fisheries of the Federal Research Centre for Fisheries. Member of the Federal Research Centre for Fisheries (ISH) involved: Dr. K.-H. Kock. Visit the IWC's website for further information: http://www.iwcoffice.org.
Western Indian Ocean Tuna Organization
The objectives and functions of the Organisation, which has no regulatory powers, are strengthening cooperation and coordination in fisheries relations by coastal States in the region, especially in regard to: - harmonization of policies with respect to fisheries; - relations with distant water fishing nations; - fisheries surveillance and enforcement; - fisheries development; - reciprocal access to EEZs of other members. http://www.fao.org/fi/body/rfb/WIOTO/wioto_mandate.htm.
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan (zwischen Dänemark, Deutschland und den Niederlanden)
World Trade Organization
