Why did cod and haddock on the Faroe Bank remain at historically low levels for more than a decade, despite restrictions on commercial fishing? A new study led by Ian Salter and colleagues at Faroe Marine Research Institute - Havstovan published in Fisheries Oceanography a few days ago, explores how oceanographic variability influences the recovery of depleted fish stocks. Drawing on approximately 25 years of fisheries, biological and oceanographic observations, the researche

Last year, engineering student Jákup Jógvansson Clementsen approached Havstovan to ask whether the institute had a project suitable for his bachelor’s thesis. Havstovan had, for several years, kept a scale model of the research vessel Jákup Sverri with the idea of one day deploying it using modern drone technology as a research platform for conducting echo-sounder surveys close to shore, in fjords, and in narrow channels. To move this idea forward, a project brief was develop