Acronym COPEMED II
Category
Fisheries
Title Coordination to Support Fisheries Management in the Western and Central Mediterranean. CopeMed Phase II Programme FAO Regional projects
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-European Coordinator NA Coordinator email copemed@fao.org
Coordinator institution
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)
Institutions involved
DGMARE - Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (Belgium) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
MBRC - Marine biology Research Centre (Libya, State of) ,
MARM - Ministry for Environment, Marine and Rural Affairs (Spain) ,
MIPAAF - Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Italy) ,
MPRH - Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (Algeria) ,
INRH - National Fisheries Research Institute (Morocco) ,
INSTM - National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies (Tunisia) ,
IEO - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Spain) ,
Start year 2008 End year 2016 Funding (€) € NA Website http://www.faocopemed.org/ Summary The second phase of the CopeMed Project started in 2008. The Project will build on the achievements of the first phase of the Project (1996-2005) while strengthening the established framework of international cooperation, which fosters sub-regional approaches in fisheries research and management. The Project aims to maintain the sustainability of marine fisheries in the central and western Mediterranean Sea, taking into consideration environmental, biological, economical and social issues, and aims to promote scientific cooperation among the coastal nations through coordinated scientific investigations and data-gathering as well as through joint multi-disciplinary analyses.
The Project will support national and regional fisheries management processes and will take advantage of the scientific multidisciplinary knowledge that was developed during the first phase. The Project will attempt to reduce the differences in fisheries management between northern and southern countries of the region and will try to encourage a sub-regional approach in fisheries research and management.
Re-qualifying the artisanal fisheries sector in the Mediterranean, particularly in the fragile coastal zones, is essential to the livelihood of the coastal fishing communities. The Project intends to develop pilot activities to assist the artisanal fisheries sector.
The long term objective of the project aims at maintaining the sustainability of the marine fisheries, taking into consideration biological, economical, social, environmental and institutional issues of the fishery and its ecosystem.
The immediate objectives are: to improve the availability of fishery statistics including bio-economic data, strengthening the national and international institutional framework for fisheries management and improve capacities and cooperation in fisheries research.
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Fisheries development;
Marine Region
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Algeria (GSA 4)
72
Gulf of Hammamet (GSA 13)
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Corsica Island (GSA 8)
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South of Sicily (GSA 16)
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Balearic Island (GSA 5)
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Alboran Island (GSA 2)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
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Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
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Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
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Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
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Malta Island (GSA 15)
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Gulf of Gabes (GSA 14)
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Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2)
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Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
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Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
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Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
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Northern Spain (GSA 6)
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Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
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Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
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Northern Tunisia (GSA 12)
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Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
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Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
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Marine Region Map
