Acronym HARMONY
Category
Fisheries
Title Development and demonstration of Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) tools for harmonization of the initial assessment in the eastern parts of the Greater North Sea sub-region Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Jesper H. Andersen Coordinator email jha@dmu.dk
Coordinator institution
AU-DCE - Aarhus University (Denmark)
Institutions involved
NA - Danish Nature Agency (Denmark) ,
NA - Environment Agency Austria (Austria) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
Klif - Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency (Norway) ,
NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research (Norway) ,
SwAM - Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (Sweden) ,
SIME - Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment (Sweden) ,
SMHI - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Sweden) ,
DTU-AQUA - Technical University of Denmark; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Denmark) ,
UHH - University of Hamburg (Germany) ,
Start year 2010 End year 2012 Funding (€) € 300,000 Website NA Summary HARMONY will develop and make available a toolbox supporting national MSFD implementation, with special focus on issues of a transnational relevance and importance. It will build on cooperation among member states that share the Greater North Sea sub-region through active involvement in several OSPAR groups. The tools will be based on respecting the needs for national flexibility, while ensuring the necessary regional harmonization of key elements under the marine strategies. The project partnership will meet these challenges through four development/harmonization activities and a coordination and information activity: (1) To develop and demonstrate a tool supporting an analysis of essential features and characteristics leading towards an integrated assessment building upon the criteria identified in the Commission Decision, while ensuring the necessary linkage to existing work under the Regional Sea Conventions as well as existing EU legislation (WFD, Natura 2000); (2) To develop and demonstrate a tool (a pressure and an impact index) supporting an analysis of the predominant pressures and impacts on the ecosystems, including the impacts of human activities on the Greater North Sea Marine sub-region; (3) Provide examples on the linkage of effects and human pressures to informed ecosystem-based marine strategies (based on activities 1 and 2); (4) To establish and support active cooperation among member states sharing the Greater North Sea sub-region enabling comparisons and harmonization, where relevant and possible, between national efforts in preparing the initial assessment and elaboration of the assessment criteria including identification of indicators and target setting. Furthermore, cooperation also enables the preparation of the monitoring program and the program of measures within the Greater North Sea sub-region. DTU Aqua (National Institute of Aquatic Resources of Denmark) has focused on biodiversity of fish and fish populations, mapping fishing pressures and ecosystem components of the project working area (North Sea).
Keywords
Environmental impact;
Policy;
Monitoring;
Impacts;
Fishing mortality;
Anthropic activity;
Physical disturbance;
Marine Region
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
4
Marine Region Map
