NORTH ARABIAN SEA ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH (NASEER)
OBJECTIVES:
Increased understanding of the degree to which recruitment variability of commercially important species along the Pakistan Coast and in the EEZ is related to the intensity and duration of the annual monsoon periods.
Increased understanding of the physical and biological oceanographic factors responsible for the high fisheries yields typical of the late summer and early fall off the Pakistan coast.
Hydroacoustic survey of large zooplankton, larval fish and fish (including unusually large population of mesopelagic fish) and their association with physical and biological oceanographic events.
Documentation of the vertical distributions of phytoplankton, phytoplankton indicators, zooplankton and their association with the vertical distributions of physical properties.
Increased understanding of the population dynamics of the phytoplankton and zooplankton as they respond to the changes in hydrography produced by the monsoon.
Delineation of the extend to which the Somali Upwelling Jet represents a river of productivity within the Arabian Sea.
Characterization of unusual bioluminescent display in the Arabian Sea, particularly the seasonality of the display and their relationships to the phytoplankton and zooplankton dynamics of the Arabian Sea.