Acronym CoralFISH
Category
Fisheries
Title Assessment of the interaction between corals, fish and fisheriesased management in the deep waters , in order to develop monitoring and predictive modelling tools for ecosystem bof Europe and beyond Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Large-Scale Integrating Project
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
ENVIRONMENT – Environment (including Climate change)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Anthony Grehan Coordinator email anthony.grehan@nuigalway.ie
Coordinator institution
NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
Institutions involved
AU - Aarhus University (Denmark) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
IMAR - Institute of Marine Research (Portugal) ,
MRI - Marine Research Institute (Iceland) ,
CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
NA - O'Malley Fisheries (Ireland) ,
KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Netherlands) ,
NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Netherlands) ,
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway) ,
UCC - University College Cork (Ireland) ,
UOA - University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) ,
Uni-HB - University of Bremen (Germany) ,
IoZ - Zoological Society of London; Institute of Zoology (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2008 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 10,885,693 Website http://eu-fp7-coralfish.net/ Summary CoralFISH aims to support the implementation of an ecosystem-based management approach in the deep-sea by studying the interaction between cold-water coral habitat, fish and fisheries in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The project aims to supply researchers and decision makers with tools to better determine the ecological status of these ecosystems, as well as to predict and monitor the impact of anthropogenic activities. The ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management must take into account that fisheries are embedded in the environment and cannot be managed in isolation.
i) develop essential methodologies and indicators for baseline and subsequent monitoring of closed areas, ii) integrate fish into coral ecosystem models to better understand coral fish-carrying capacity, iii) evaluate the distribution of deepwater bottom fishing effort to identify areas of potential interaction and impact upon coral habitat, iv) use genetic fingerprinting to assess the potential erosion of genetic fitness of corals due to long-term exposure to fishing impacts, v) construct bio-economic models to assess management effects on corals and fisheries to provide policy options, and vi) produce as a key output, habitat suitability maps both regionally and for OSPAR Region V to identify areas likely to contain vulnerable habitat. The latter will provide the EU with the tools to address the issues raised by the UNGA resolution.
Keywords
Corals;
Economy;
Genetic;
Impacts;
Physical disturbance;
Fish;
Ecosystem approach;
Fisheries management;
Environmental impact;
Marine Region
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
29
West of Ireland (27.VIIb)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
36
Iceland Grounds (27.Va)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
40
Azores Grounds (27.Xa, 27.Xb)
30
Porcupine Bank (27.VIIc)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
9
Marine Region Map
