Habitat: Demersal Main role: Prey Trophic level: 3 – 3,5
Diet: Their diet is dominated by zooplankton, but polychaetes, meiofauna and other small benthos have also an important role.
Threats: Of commercial interest. They are caught in large quantities by specialized industrial fisheries.
Habitat: Pelagic Main role: Prey Trophic level: 3
Diet: zooplankton.
Threats: Highly commercial. Sprats are caught by various trawl gear and seine nets, and are often preserved by smoking. Juvenile sprats are marketed as whitebait. However, the larger part of the international catch is used in the fishmeal industry.
Sandeel and sprat are part of one single data layer. This is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE).
Different pressures generate by human activities (noise, bottom disturbance, surface disturbance, artificial substrate) have different, complex effects on marine species in terms of movement, survival and procreation.
Sandeel and sprat are caught by all fishing fleets, but mostly by industrial and pelagic trawl.
Sandeel is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE). For more information on how Ecopath-with-Ecosim (EwE) works, please visit our Wiki page or visit the official EwE website at https://ecopath.org.
For detailed information on how the simulation works for the North Sea Edition, we recommend further exploring our research publication called "Combining ecosystem modeling with serious gaming in support of transboundary maritime spatial planning".
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