In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed a litterature review around the topic of mesopelagic resources. The authors put forward how there is little room for increased yields in current commercial fisheries since most of them are either overfished or fished at maximum capacity – and that unexploited marine resources can contribute to […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […]
The website by our “sister project” MEESO is up! Visit it here! The MEESO research project aims at filling in major knowledge gaps on mesopelagic organisms living deep in the oceans and at evaluating whether they can be exploited in an ecologically and economically sustainable way. The project has 19 partners representing research and industry […]
The depth and unique characteristics of the Mesopelagic ecosystem (between 200 to 1000 metres depth), which is barely reached by light, have made it essential to combine several innovative technologies to estimate the mesopelagic fish biomass. The SUMMER project is using 4 different methods that provide data to measure the number of fish: ACOUSTICS VIDEO […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […]
Elements are vital building blocks for all life on earth. Primates, fish, and crustacean alike consist of a mixture of macroelements such as carbon, phosphorus and sulfur, and microelements such as iron and zinc, making their metabolism functional. Elemental composition of small mesopelagic organisms such as fish and crustacean are largely undocumented. In a newly […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […]
It can be hard to see what type of creature the giant ostracod (Gigantocypris) is at first glance. It looks like a large, organge ball, and is found all around the world – in deep, dark and cold oceans. The Giant Ostracod, swimming in the ocean mesopelagic zone. Their bodies can consist of up to […]
As in movies, science has a behind the “paper” history that illustrates the continuous challenge of hypothesis implicit to the scientific process. Here, we will tell you about one of those histories related to our friends, the mesopelagic fishes. Sometime during 2015 a group of researchers, presently involved in the SUMMER project, analyzed the vertical […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […]
Metro Bilbao is hosting a photographic exhibition about the most fascinating creatures that inhabit the mesopelagic zone, between 200 and 1,000 metres deep. The exhibition has been organized by AZTI scientific and technology centre within the framework of the European SUMMER project, financed by the European Union, to increase knowledge about the species of this […]
BARNA, S.A. is a company located in Mundaka, north of Spain on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea. BARNA has since 1961 been dedicated to the management and transformation of by-products from the fishing industry. Our mission each year is to produce about 11 000 tons of fishmeal and fish oil for animal feed from […]
Ctenophores are bioluminescent, gelatinous organisms – also known as comb […] Sea angels… Small, yet graceful. It has no shell, […] Metro Bilbao is hosting a photographic exhibition about the most […] Siphonophores may be some of the most unique and fascinating […] It can be hard to see what type of […] The Humbolt […]
Ctenophores are bioluminescent, gelatinous organisms – also known as comb […] Sea angels… Small, yet graceful. It has no shell, […] Metro Bilbao is hosting a photographic exhibition about the most […] Siphonophores may be some of the most unique and fascinating […] It can be hard to see what type of […] The Humbolt […]
