Acronym CLIFISH
Category
Fisheries
Title Climatic variability and fisheries in the 21st century: effects of global change on nektobenthic populations and communities 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 Pere Abello Sala Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
CSIC-ICM - Spanish National Research Council; Institut de Ciències del Mar (Spain)
Institutions involved
IEO - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Spain) ,
UIB - University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 302,500 Website NA Summary Climate change and overfishing affect biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems, as well as the distribution and population dynamics of species, which are fundamental for the sustainability of fisheries. This coordinated project proposes to model the impact of environmental variability and overfishing on nektobenthic populations and communities of the western mediterranean and north-east atlantic, and on their living resources and fisheries. Moreover, the main goal is to make predictions and projections of these fisheries at different time horizons and under different global change scenarios. Finally, it also aims to the dissemination of the research conducted on climate and fisheries, as well as the collaboration of the main stakeholders of the sea in monitoring the effects of the marine global change.
In order to pursue these objectives we have gathered a multidisciplinary research team that is organized in three subprojects. The first one is coordinated by members of the spanish institute of oceanography (ieo), who have experience in population dynamics and communities subject to overfishing. The second one is led by a team from the university of the balearic islands (uib), with extensive experience in the study and modelling of climate change scenarios and oceanographic factors influencing the population dynamics of marine living resources. Finally, the third subproject is led by the institute of sciences of the sea of barcelona from the higher council for scientific research (icm-csic), with extensive experience in diversity, distribution and biology of decapod crustaceans and eco-morphology of communities.
This proposal is based on the analysis of historical data-bases and on climate and fisheries models, which already exist and are available for the working team. The project is structured in 4 main tasks and 14 interdisciplinary study cases, which have been selected from the results of previous projects. All study cases focus on species or communities that are key to the benthic-pelagic ecosystems and also to the fisheries that exploit them. The first task will study the influence of the environment and fishing on nektobenthic species and communities, improving the existing models or developing new ones. The second will focus on the modelling of the physical variables that affect the nektobenthic communities. In particular it will develop multidecadal projections and will assess the predictability at short (weeks) and medium term (from a few months and 1-2 years) of these variables. The third task will be a combination of the two previous and will estimate the evolution of populations and nektobenthic communities and their fisheries at short, medium and long term. Finally, the fourth task will focus on dissemination of results, which will be targeted by the participation of the project in the web portal " seawatchers" (www.seawatchers.org).
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the studies and models developed in this project will be conducted at a regional scale, which provides some guarantees for the success of the main scientific challenges of this proposal, that is, the predictions and projections. Also this ensures the reliability and usefulness of the results for an adaptive management of marine resources. Therefore, the project has a high potential for the transfer of scientific knowledge on issues related to the conservation of marine ecosystems and the sustainability of fisheries.
Keywords
Environmental impact;
Climate change;
Fish;
Fishing mortality;
Impacts;
Marine Region
51
Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
52
Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
46
Corsica Island (GSA 8)
57
Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
55
Algeria (GSA 4)
49
Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
56
Alboran Island (GSA 2)
53
Northern Spain (GSA 6)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
38
Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
34
Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
35
West of Bay of Biscay (27.VIIIe)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
16
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