Acronym MESSAGE
Category
Fisheries
Title Modelling Eco-System Services using AGE-structured approaches 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)
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Funding source National Coordinator Stein Ivar Steinshamn Coordinator email Stein.Steinshamn@nhh.no
Coordinator institution
SNF - Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration (Norway)
Institutions involved
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Start year 2016 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 1,099,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/255530?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=90&TemaEmne.2=Fiskeri Summary Population and economic growth result in increased greenhouse gas emissions that affect the productivity of our oceans as well as the services provided by ecosystems. Analysis of ecosystem services must be performed by ecosystem modelling. Ecosystem modelling is much more than traditional multi-species modelling, as some may think. For one thing, in order to include a large variety of ecosystem services, it must also include more stakeholders than traditional bioeconomic models, which typically include only those who are directly involved in the harvesting activity, consumers of marine products and possibly managers. A good ecosystem model should look at the problem from the viewpoint of the society as a whole. In particular, it should involve the aquaculture sector, the land-based processing industry, recreational fishers and tourism in addition to the harvesting sector. It must also include external effects of the economic activities such as pollution and direct and indirect pressure on biodiversity. Indirectly, it therefore includes the whole population. We will adaptat existing models at SNF and NHH to the research questions mentioned above which is the aim of the proposed project.
Another important objective in this project is to analyze how, and to what extent, different types of fisheries, vessels and gear contribute to or challenge sustainability of fisheries and ecosystems. Deliverables from the project include advice both on the degree of exploitation and type of exploitation with respect to gear as well as type of fishery (commercial versus recreational, industrial versus artisanal, etc.)
The project is divided in four work packages:
1 Fishers behavior and response to environmental and economic changes.
2 Linking market and marine ecosystem through fish prices.
3 Analysis of different fleet categories and gear types and their contribution to ecosystem services.
4 Age-structured multi-species models.
Keywords
Economy;
Marine Region
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