Résumé
An account is given of the research activities by the Chief Directorate Marine and Coastal Management of South Africa during the year 2001/2002 under the following main section headings: Studies on resources - pelagic fish, demersal fish, cephalopods, linefish, abalone, seaweed, rock lobster, seabirds; Highlights of supporting research - Assessing wind contribution to the Southern Benguela upwelling interannual dynamics, Assessing Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Colour from Space, Satellite derived indices of productive capacity for the Benguela system, Nursery grounds and adult distribution of monkfish Lophius vomerinus, Detection of a poleward undercurrent off southern Angola, A method to correct acoustic estimates of biomass for signal attenuation in dense fish schools, Development of a pleopod index to assess the moulting season of rock lobster Palinurus gilchristi, South African west coast ravaged by predatory hordes, A fisheries Geographical Information System for M&CM, Trophic models of the southern Benguela during the 1980s and 1990s, Acoustic biomass assessment and target strength estimates of chokka squid off the Eastern Cape coast, Nearshore acoustic surveys for pelagic fish, Predicting anchovy Engraulis capensis and sardine Sardinops sagax spawning habitat from satellite -derived data, Modelling and predicting vertical phytoplankton biomass structure from environmental information using quantitative models, Individual-based modelling of the early stages of anchovy in the southern Benguela Research in the Southern Ocean, Laboratory studies on the feeding behaviour of juvenile horse mackerel, Obtaining a population estimate by tagging and recapturing Cape fur seal pups at Kleinsee; M&CM researchers in the international arena; and, Publications.