• Observing and modelling
• Marine Climate Change Centre (MC3)
• Ecosystems and biodiversity
• Assessing human impacts
• Animal health and food safety
• Fisheries information
  • Fisheries Science Partnership
  • Commercial species
  • Discards and fishing gear technology
  • Tagging programmes
  • Ecologically important fish habitats
  • Ageing fish
  • Recreational sea angling
  • Surveys
  • Deep-water species, NE Atlantic
  • Under-utilised species
  • Freshwater fisheries
  • Non-native species
  • Salmonids
  • Eels
  • Fish stomach records
  • Fish-eating birds
  • Unusual fish
  • Species of conservation importance

Related links

• Advice on marine fisheries
• Fishing gear technology
• Survey tools

Surveys

We conduct independant fisheries surveys in the North Sea, English Channel, Bristol Channel, Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea, ofen using our research vessel the Cefas Endeavour.

For more information about their purpose and how these surveys are conducted, review the links below:

• The English 3rd Quarter North Sea Groundfish Survey
• Irish Sea and Bristol Channel survey (September - October)
• Quarter 4 Westerly groundfish survey (November - December)
• The Eastern English Channel survey (August - September)
• Western English Channel beam trawl survey (September - October)
• North Sea young fish survey (August - September)
• Estimating spawning stock biomass using egg surveys

• Fisheries Science Partnership surveys