The objective of the project RADIALES, started in 1990, aims at “understanding and modelling the response of the marine ecosystem to the sources of temporal variability in oceanographic and planktonic components, focusing on those factors and processes affecting biological production and potentially altering the ecosystem services”. This project is the oldest multidisciplinary ocean observation initiative still active in Spain.
Historical series of oceanographic data in the Vigo Estuary and adjacent platform.
Study of strategies to reduce discards and unwanted species: selectivity and survival in trawling in Cantabrian-Northwest zone.
El objetivo de la campaña es conocer el estado de las poblaciones de las especies objetivo: su abundancia, biomasa y estructura demográfica, y las condiciones oceanográficas en el Banco. Este objetivo implica las siguientes acciones: • Prospectar el área de Flemish Cap, División 3M de NAFO hasta profundidades de 1460 m (800 brazas) mediante un muestreo aleatorio estratificado, haciendo 181 pescas válidas de arrastre con un arte Lofoten, diurnas: entre las 6.00 y las 22.00 horas, y una duración efectiva de arrastre de 30 minutos. • Realizar en cada pesca un muestreo biológico detallado de la captura para cada una de las especies objetivo, que incluya muestreos de talla, sexo, peso, otolitos y gónadas. Para las demás especies sólo se hará muestreo de tallas y muestreos talla-peso. • Análisis de los contenidos estomacales de las principales especies capturadas, a realizar cada dos años. • Identificación y registro de todas las especies de invertebrados presentes en las capturas. • Registrar las condiciones oceanográficas en el banco haciendo estaciones de CTD para cubrir un retículo con 15 millas de separación, tanto en longitud como en latitud.
Acoustic estimates by echointegration of the strength of the anchovy and sardine recruitment off Portugal and south Galicia Oceanographic (physical -CTD- and biological _bongo nets)characterization of the surveyed area Charting the subsurface microplastic distribution along the surveyed area
The objective of the project RADIALES, started in 1990, aims at “understanding and modelling the response of the marine ecosystem to the sources of temporal variability in oceanographic and planktonic components, focusing on those factors and processes affecting biological production and potentially altering the ecosystem services”. This project is the oldest multidisciplinary ocean observation initiative still active in Spain.
Estimation of the recruitment of the main small pelagic species in the Gulf of Cadiz by eco-integration.
Getting the spatial distribution and abundance indices of benthic and demersal fauna of the continental shelf of Galicia and Cantabrian Sea. Hydrographic survey of the neritic zone led to its influence on the distribution of species. Sampling using a box corer to obtain granulometrics indices of sediment.
Study of the circalitoral benthic habitats in sedimentary bottoms of the South Atlantic Demarcation. Identification and mapping of habitats. Characterization of benthic communities.
Study of the circalitoral benthic habitats in sedimentary bottoms of the Canary Islands Demarcation. Identification and mapping of habitats. Characterization of benthic communities. Fine-tuning of the study techniques of the benthic habitats of the circalitoral and bathyal sedimentary bottoms. Identification, mapping and characterization of benthic communities.