Lead organization: Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
Duration: 2019-2023
ICES contacts:
Vaishav Soni, Data Scientist
Lise Cronne-Grigorov, Project Officer
Project objectives:
The overall goal of MEESO is to quantify the spatio-temporal distributions of biomass, production and ecosystem role of
mesopelagic resources and to assess options to sustainably manage and govern their utilization. To reach this goal,
MEESO will create new knowledge and data on the mesopelagic community, its biodiversity, drivers of its biomass, its role in
carbon sequestration, its role in the oceanic ecosystem and its interactions with the epipelagic community which includes
several important commercial fish stocks.
ICES role:
This project has received funding from the European Commission - Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 817669.
