New Fisheries Centre of Excellence Launched

With fundamentally important scientific questions and issues still remaining to be tackled in the coming years, Cefas has launched a new Fisheries International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) which aims to become the international go-to source of advice for successful fisheries management. 

Key to the work of the Centre are four key science pillars: (i) the collection of high-quality data, (ii) quality assurance and stewardship of both historic and contemporary data, (iii) robust data analyses, including novel approaches to assessing and understanding the status of fish and shellfish stocks, and (iv) scientific outputs, which include contributions to ICES’ Working Groups, peer-reviewed publications and advice to Governments and other relevant bodies such as the National Maritime  Fisheries Working Group (London & South East)

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