LifeWatch Data Archaeology Workshop: Analysis of historical data on bycatch in shrimp fisheries along the Belgian Coast
On the 8th of May 2018, nine experts met at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Ostend to explore what type of information is hidden in a century of historical data on bycatch in shrimp fisheries.
Today almost a century of catch data exists. Most of these data (the majority fish and benthos counts or densities) were fragmented in reports or original paper forms and have been digitized and merged in a large database by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and the Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO).
To handle these and other research questions a steering group was established consisting of experts of both VLIZ and ILVO.