Anti Sykkö’s scientific contributions

Our second workshop on a newly developed, alternative approach to the segmentation of fishing fleets was held from 28th to 30th of March 2022. Due to travel restrictions caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop took place online. Cisco Webex provided the online platform. The workshop was hosted by the Thünen Institute for Sea, Fisheries, part of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany's Federal Research Insitute for rural areas, forestry, and fisheries. Thirty-seven experts representing 16 nations, the ICES, and DG MARE, participated in the workshop. Fifteen national fisheries data sets were analyzed. A new approach to the segmentation of fishing fleets was developed in a DCF pilot project at the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries and transferred to an R package, referred to as "FS-package" in the following. In March 2021, the first workshop on the novel approach and the FS-package was held with 34 experts representing 15 nations, and major progress in improving the package was made. After implementing the suggestions made by the attendants of the first workshop and identifying the next urgent steps for further developing the novel approach, the creators of the approach organized a second workshop.