PANDORA addresses important, practical, and region-specific research gaps for European fisheries.
The toolbox is an interactive website including a variety of resources ranging from simple meta-data and links to preexisting tools to more complex, front-end platforms for displaying outputs from improved assessment and economic models (e.g. short- to long-term changes in distribution and/or productivity of fish stocks as well as economic trade-offs associated with different management strategies).
 | Density dependence
When fish stocks recover they enter into competition for prey resources, resulting in changed stock structures. What are the density-dependent impacts of rebuilding Europe's commercial stocks?
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 | Spatial structure
Many fish stocks have displayed changes in their geographical distribution in recent years, current MSY reference points do not account for these changes. PANDORA seeks to change that.
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 | Environmental impacts
Climate-driven factors can cause species-specific changes in productivity. Environmentally sensitive SSB-R relationships will allow management to rapidly adapt to changes in the productivity of fish stocks.
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 | Food web dynamics
Using a single species approach to achieving MSY for both a predator and its prey may not be realistic as changes in stock abundance influence other stocks. How can we integrate food web interactions in "pretty good yield" estimates?
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