A multidisciplinary team of 30 scientists from the University of the Balearic Islands, CSIC and IEO will investigate 14 cases of study in the next three years

Researchers from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), the Institut de Ciències del Mar (BWI) of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) and the coastal centres of Santander, Vigo, Cadiz, Málaga and Baleares, and the Central Services in Madrid of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), meet in Palma for the first meeting of the CLIFISH project, which proposes to model the impact of environmental variability and fishing exploitation in the populations and communities of the background of the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic (IEO), and to make their future projections of different future, and to their future, in terms of life, and in terms of their future, and in terms of their future, and in terms of future, and in terms of their future, and in terms of their future, and in terms of their future.

CLIFISH is a project funded by the State Plan I + D + i (MINECO / ERDF), which is structured in three subprojects developed by the UIB (CTM2015-66400-C3-2-R), the ICM-CSIC (CTM2015-66400-C3-R) and the IEO (CTM2015-66400-C3-1-R), which also acts as coordinator through the Oceanographic Centre of the Balearic Islands. CLIFISH is the continuation of IDEA (www.ba.ieo.es / idea), IDEADOS (www.ba.ieo.es / ideados) and ECLIPSAME (www.eclipsame.com) projects, which analyzed and modelled the influence of biotic and abiotic factors, as well as the synergistic effects of climate and fishing on the exploited demersal resources and ecosystems, led by the research group in Ecosystems, Demersal and Bentos Resources of the IEO Oceanographic Centre.

The CLIFISH project is structured in 14 study cases, which have been selected from the results of previous projects and which include key demersal species or communities, not only for bottom ecosystems, but also for the fisheries that exploit them, including hake and red gamba. It is based on the analysis of existing historical series of climate, oceanographic, biological and fishing data and models. To this end, a multidisciplinary research team has been set up, organized into three sub-projects. The IEO, with experience in the dynamics of populations and communities subject to fishing exploitation; the UIB, with experience in the study and modeling of climate change scenarios and oceanographic factors that influence the population dynamics of marine living resources; and the ICM-CSIC, with experience in the diversity, distribution and biology of decapod crustaceans and the ecomorphology of communities.