Acronym INDICIT 2
Category
Fisheries
Title Marine Strategy Framework Directive - Second Cycle: Implementation of the new GES Decision and Programmes of Measures Programme DG Environment + EMFF
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 European Coordinator Hubert Bost Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
EPHE - École Pratique des Hautes Études (France)
Institutions involved
DGSCM-SGPM - Dirección General de Sostenibilidad de la Costa y del Mar- Subdirección General para la Protección del Mar (Spain) ,
MTES - France Ministry for Ecological and Solidary Transition (France) ,
HCMR - Hellenic Center for Marine Research (Greece) ,
ISPRA - Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Italy) ,
INSTM - National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies (Tunisia) ,
CNR-IAS - National Research Council; Institute for the Study of Anthropic Impact and Sustainability in the Marine Environment (Italy) ,
FRCT - Regional Fund for Science and Technology of the Azores (Portugal) ,
PAU-DEKAMER - Turkish Sea Turtle Rescue Centre (Turkey) ,
UNEXE - University of Exeter (United Kingdom) ,
ULPGC - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) ,
UV - University of Valencia (Spain) ,
Start year 2019 End year 2021 Funding (€) € 104,845 Website https://indicit.cefe.cnrs.fr/ Summary The European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) aims to achieve the protection of marine biodiversity and the sustainable use of the marine environment across Europe, with the objective of achieving Good Environmental Status (GES) of the EU's marine waters by 2020 on the basis of 11 qualitative descriptors. Marine litter is one of the most important human-caused pressures on marine environment, leading to the establishment of the descriptor 10 (D 10) for which GES is achieved when “properties and quantities of marine litter do not cause harm to the coastal and marine environment”.
The new proposal INDICIT II involves 12 partners from the public sector (7 EU countries and 2 non- EU countries), all contracting parties to the OSPAR (Atlantic) and/or Barcelona (Mediterranean) conventions. The general objectives are (1) to capitalize the practical outcomes related to networking, development of standardized tools, gathering of standard data and GES assessments for the Indicator “Litter ingested by sea turtles”, (2) to support the implementation of the indicators “Entanglement of sea turtles, birds, cetaceans in floating debris” and “Micro-plastic ingestion by fish and sea turtles”, (3) to support of next 6-year cycle of MSFD implementation by testing the indicators (especially the more advanced “Litter ingested by sea turtles”) in response to National PoMs in several pilot areas. By developing standardized knowledge for several fauna taxa at an extended spatial level, the new project will contribute to provide integrative tools to assess anthropogenic risks and distance to GESespecially in the framework of the Descriptor 10.
Keywords
Impacts;
Sea turtles;
Pollution;
Fish;
Marine litter;
Cetaceans;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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