Yearly monitoring of the shrimps and the benthos community are done in the joint autumn ecosystem survey. The joint autumn ecosystem survey will also supply a historical benthic mapping started by PINRO in the early 1930’s, continued in the 1960’s and followed up from year 2000. In addition, basic mapping of the bottom animals in the Barents Sea is done in the MAREANO project, which started its ac...

Most of the area surveys mentioned above have monitoring of commercial fish species as their main objective. The different fish stocks and life stages are targeted at these surveys. In addition to catch data, the surveys are the main data source for the assessment of the stocks. Data on non-target fish species (abundance, weight, length distribution etc.) have also been collected on these surveys ...