The Danish monitoring of beach litter has so far not been conducted within the national monitoring program and has thus been conducted on a smaller scale.

The sampling area is located within the main distribution area of the fulmar in the Danish waters

Commercial vessels are selected randomly and success rate is recorded. Success rate is defined as the number of fishermen willing to participate in allowing the observers to come onboard. A new sampling system was introduced in 2011, where vessels are selected on a stratified random basis, based on last year’s data. For each métier and quarter a vessel selection spreadsheet has been computed and the change of selecting a vessel are weighted with the amount of trips conducted in the same quarter and area one year earlier. When a vessel is selected by the computer the observers are oblique to call the skipper to ask for the possibility to conduct an observer trip with his vessel. As the system is weighting the amounts of trips conducted by the vessel it is possible to select the same ship more than once within a quarter. The fishermen answers are registered in a log. If a skipper decisively refuses to have an observer on board he is not contacted again within that year even though the ship is selected again by the system. However, the ship is registered with the same answer. If the skipper says “no” but is given a more vague answer (try again later or it is not fitting very good right now) he will be called again the next time the vessel is being selected by the system.

Commercial vessels are selected randomly and success rate is recorded. Success rate is defined as the number of fishermen willing to participate in allowing the observers to come onboard. A new sampling system was introduced in 2011, where vessels are selected on a stratified random basis, based on last year’s data. For each métier and quarter a vessel selection spreadsheet has been computed and the change of selecting a vessel are weighted with the amount of trips conducted in the same quarter and area one year earlier. When a vessel is selected by the computer the observers are oblique to call the skipper to ask for the possibility to conduct an observer trip with his vessel. As the system is weighting the amounts of trips conducted by the vessel it is possible to select the same ship more than once within a quarter. The fishermen answers are registered in a log. If a skipper decisively refuses to have an observer on board he is not contacted again within that year even though the ship is selected again by the system. However, the ship is registered with the same answer. If the skipper says “no” but is given a more vague answer (try again later or it is not fitting very good right now) he will be called again the next time the vessel is being selected by the system.

Commercial vessels are selected randomly and success rate is recorded. Success rate is defined as the number of fishermen willing to participate in allowing the observers to come onboard. A new sampling system was introduced in 2011, where vessels are selected on a stratified random basis, based on last year’s data. For each métier and quarter a vessel selection spreadsheet has been computed and the change of selecting a vessel are weighted with the amount of trips conducted in the same quarter and area one year earlier. When a vessel is selected by the computer the observers are oblique to call the skipper to ask for the possibility to conduct an observer trip with his vessel. As the system is weighting the amounts of trips conducted by the vessel it is possible to select the same ship more than once within a quarter. The fishermen answers are registered in a log. If a skipper decisively refuses to have an observer on board he is not contacted again within that year even though the ship is selected again by the system. However, the ship is registered with the same answer. If the skipper says “no” but is given a more vague answer (try again later or it is not fitting very good right now) he will be called again the next time the vessel is being selected by the system.

Project has been launched in order to ascertain the species distribution along the coastal strips of Denmark.

This survey is carried out in order to investigate abundance, distribution and migrations of the Atlanto-Scandian herring, blue whiting and other pelagic fish in the Norweigian Sea and adjacent waters . Furthermore, hydrographical conditions and plankton abundance are monitored. The survey was coordinated with Norway as an international survey with participation of Norway, Iceland, Faroe Islands and EU, where the Danish R/V Dana conducted the EU survey part. The survey is carried out as a joint EU survey with participation of UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Denmark.

Commercial vessels are selected randomly and success rate is recorded. Success rate is defined as the number of fishermen willing to participate in allowing the observers to come onboard. A new sampling system was introduced in 2011, where vessels are selected on a stratified random basis, based on last year’s data. For each métier and quarter a vessel selection spreadsheet has been computed and the change of selecting a vessel are weighted with the amount of trips conducted in the same quarter and area one year earlier. When a vessel is selected by the computer the observers are oblique to call the skipper to ask for the possibility to conduct an observer trip with his vessel. As the system is weighting the amounts of trips conducted by the vessel it is possible to select the same ship more than once within a quarter. The fishermen answers are registered in a log. If a skipper decisively refuses to have an observer on board he is not contacted again within that year even though the ship is selected again by the system. However, the ship is registered with the same answer. If the skipper says “no” but is given a more vague answer (try again later or it is not fitting very good right now) he will be called again the next time the vessel is being selected by the system.