relatório actividades de j - DOP/UAç - Universidade dos Açores

INDEX
ORGANIZATION..............................................................................................................................2
LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS IN COURSE, STARTED AND/OR APROVED IN 2001..........4
EUROPEAN FUNDING .......................................................................................................................4
FIEFA - Providing a Framework to Improve the Assessment of the Main Demersal and
Pelagic Fisheries in Western European Waters....................................................................4
BASBLACK - Environment and biology of deep-water species Aphanopus carbo in the NE
Atlantic: basis for its management. .......................................................................................4
MARÉ - Integrated Management of Coastal and Marine Areas in the Azores......................4
VENTOX – Deep-Sea hydrothermal vents: a natural pollution laboratory............................6
SAMFISH – Improving Sampling of Western and Southern European Atlantic Fisheries. ...7
DELASS – Development of Elasmobranch assessments.....................................................8
NATIONAL FUNDING.........................................................................................................................8
CORRAM - Octopod cephalopods: relation of the resources with marine environment.......8
Trophic ecology and population structure of juvenile, pelagic stage loggerhead sea turtles
(Caretta caretta) in the North Atlantic Ocean. .......................................................................8
Ecology and conservation of the temporally segregated populations of the madeiran storm
petrel Oceanodroma castro breeding in the Azores..............................................................9
Life cycle of two migratory Anguilliform species - Anguilla anguilla (L.) and Conger conger
(L.) - in the North Atlantic ....................................................................................................10
MAROV - Mapping of Marine Habitats of the Azores using Robotic Ocean Vehicles. .......10
REGIONAL FUNDING.......................................................................................................................10
Small pelagic fishes from Azores: Biology and Fisheries....................................................10
CRUSTAÇO - Experimental fishing of deep-sea crustaceans of the Azores. ....................11
MAREDA - Assessment of relative abundances of demersal species in the Azores .........11
Impact of whale watching activities on cetacean populations: assessment and regulations
.............................................................................................................................................11
Analysis of mercury in canned fish......................................................................................11
BARCA - Bases for the characterization of tow coastal artisanal fisheries of the Azores: gill
nets and triggerfish..............................................................................................................11
NTPA – Study for the implementation of new fisheries techniques in the Azores. .............12
DETRA – Remote sensing techniques implementation in the Azores – Studies of
mesoscale variability and fisheries support.........................................................................12
GEMAS – Evaluation, management and monitor of underwater sandbanks around Faial,
Pico and São Miguel............................................................................................................12
FISHOR – "Fishing experience of orange-roughy (Hoplosthetus atlanticus)".....................13
Ocean Forum – Discussion forum about the ocean in the internet.....................................13
OTHER FUNDING ...........................................................................................................................13
POPA - Dolphin-safe observer program for the fisheries of the Azores .............................13
ImagDOP – "Image and multimedia nucleus of the Department of Oceanography and
Fisheries of the University of the Azores" ...........................................................................14
Swordfish longline fisheries observation program...............................................................14
AERONET - AErosol RObotic NETwork. ............................................................................14
Fishing experience for the reduction of by-catch of marine turtle in the Azores. ................15