Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK Danish Institute of Fisheries Research, Denmark Marine Research Institute, Iceland
Institute for Marine, Bergen, Norway Kiel Institute of Marine Research, Germany Fisheries Research Services, Faroes National Institute of Fisheries, Sweden
Institute of Marine Research, Norway Fisheries Research Services, Scotland
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· To undertake a comprehensive Data Storage Tag tagging programme to collect individual level behavioural and environmental experience data from cod in four contrasting ecosystems: the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Barents Sea and Icelandic/ Faroese waters
· To develop a geolocation database based on existing comprehensive hydrographic datasets
· To reconstruct horizontal movements of cod in relation to spawning/ feeding grounds
· To identify key environmental forcers of horizontal movements of cod
· To simulate cod population-level processes using behaviour-based models of spatial dynamics
· To describe patterns and mechanisms of vertical movement in relation to environmental parameters and develop predictive models of vertical distribution of cod
· To identify and validate signature microstructures in otoliths ('ethotyping') from recaptured fish and quantify their frequency distributions in populations in order to scale up individual-level behavioural results to population-scale behavioural phenomena