Tracking zooplankton patches using optic sensors
The CliN-BluFeed project, financed by the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP), aims at developing new methodologies for tracking zooplankton patches. Energy-rich copepods, particularly Calanus spp., play a key role as primary food source for upper trophic levels and are currently harvested in a small-scale fishery. These copepods often form dense patches—but detecting these aggregations re