Acronym PISCES
Category
Fisheries
Title Partnerships Involving Stakeholders in the Celtic sea Eco-System Programme LIFE
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source European Coordinator Lyndsey DODDS Coordinator email LDodds@wwf.org.uk
Coordinator institution
WWF UK - World Wide Fund for Nature United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
Institutions involved
TEC - Environment Council (United Kingdom) ,
WWF ES - World Wide Fund for Nature Spain (Spain) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2012 Funding (€) € 2,103,888 Website https://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspPage&n_proj_id=3281&docType=pdf Summary The Celtic Sea, to the south and south-west of Ireland and south-western England and Wales, is a rich ecosystem that encompasses deep water features such as seamounts and canyons, as well as varied coastal habitats such as tidal estuaries and rocky reefs. These features and habitats support a wealth of biodiversity, including cold water corals, sharks, cetaceans, and commercially important fin and shellfish species such as scallop, crab, shrimp, tuna, anglerfish and salmon. As with oceans and seas globally, the health of the marine ecosystem in the Celtic Sea is under significant threat from a variety of external pressures (climate change, fisheries, food cultivation in the open ocean, chemical pollution, shipping, construction and dredging, coastal development, recreation and tourism). A response to this is implementation of the ecosystem approach, or integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way. The project will work closely with target stakeholders from several Member States to test collaborative methodologies for implementing the ecosystem approach in the Celtic Sea. The project will add to the development and demonstration of innovative policy approaches and will specifically contribute to the effective implementation of the European Union's Marine Strategy. The project will particularly focus on the implementation of the ecosystem approach in the Celtic Sea. Concentrating on this region of the EU's maritime waters, the project will apply a demonstration approach, and its findings will contribute to improved policy and governance for other sub-regions and regional seas in EU maritime waters. The project will produce new guidance for effective delivery of the ecosystem approach, developed by key marine stakeholders in close collaboration with the governments of the Celtic Sea. As a result, by 2012, relevant marine stakeholders in the Celtic Sea will have a significantly greater shared understanding of the ecosystem approach towards integrated marine management, and cooperation and coordination between relevant representative marine stakeholder groups will have led to the development (and Celtic Sea Member State recognition) of agreed mechanisms for implementing the ecosystem approach in the context of relevant EU marine policies. The project will promote its results to the wider marine community in the Celtic Sea, and to other EU marine sub-regions.
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Guidelines;
Ecosystem approach;
Marine Region
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Celtic Sea South (27.VIIh)
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Western English Channel (27.VIIe)
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