| General info | |
| Project title | Demersal Young Fish Survey |
| Project acronym | DYFS |
| Begin date | 1969-01-01 |
| End date | To present |
| Location | |
| Geographic coverage | All coastal and estuarine areas of the southern North Sea, Belgium up to Southern Denmark. The Dutch survey area comprises the coastal zone from the border between the Netherlands and Belgium up to Esbjerg (DK) and also includes the Wadden Sea, the Ems-Dollard estuary and the Wester- and Oosterschelde. |
| Description | |
| Abstract | The Dutch Demersal Fish Survey (DFS) is part of an international inshore survey carried out by the Netherlands, England, Belgium and Germany. The DFS aims at monitoring young plaice and sole in their nursery grounds in the North Sea coastal zone.
The main objective of the DFS is to provide recruitment indices of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) and sole (Solea solea, Solea vulgaris), focussing on age groups 0 and 1. Recruitment indices of the previous survey year are used by the ICES Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak (WGNSSK) to make short-term projections of stock development.
Additionally, the DFS aims at monitoring the demersal fish fauna and epibenthos in shallow waters of the North Sea. Next to plaice and sole, also brown shrimps (Crangon crangon) and non-commercial fish are caught. The DFS is unique in delivering such data for the Wadden Sea region and for the Schelde estuary.
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| Coordinator | |
| Coordinating organisation | Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden
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| Country of Coordinator | Netherlands |
| Contact name | I.J. de Boois |
| Contact organisation | Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden
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| Phone | +31 317 487070 |
| Fax | +31 317 487326 |
| Email | ingeborg.deboois@wur.nl |
| Edmerp metadata | |
| Edmerp id | 11608 |
| Collating centre | National Oceanographic Data Committee
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| Latest update | 2020-10-12 |
