Acronym CSTP
Category
Fisheries
Title Celtic Sea Trout Project Programme Interreg IV
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
Strand A
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
North West Europe
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Jonathan King Coordinator email j.w.king@bangor.ac.uk
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
EA - Environment Agency (United Kingdom) ,
IFI - Inland Fisheries Ireland (Ireland) ,
UCC - University College Cork (Ireland) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 2,081,841 Website http://celticseatrout.com/ Summary The project aims to protect & enhance sustainable tourism, cross-border biodiversity & environmental quality by filling a major gap in the knowledge and management of sea trout fisheries, which are of particular importance to Ireland and Wales. The gap lies in our understanding of sea trout in the sea: where they go, their ecology, what pressures they are exposed to, how they react to climate change and how their stocks are interlinked. A unique network of cross-border expertise will collaborate to monitor, manage & protect sea trout in the coastal rivers of the region & the Irish Sea itself.
Through a fully integrated & collaborative network of management agencies & public end-user groups, HEI & governmental research institutes CSTP aims to;
• Protect/enhance the health of stocks, socio-economic value of fisheries and the status of cross-border biodiversity by determining the current status of sea trout stocks and fisheries, and by describing genetic and life history variation in the region;
• Develop an informed/coordinated management plan for the conservation, sustainable management & exploitation of this joint asset;
• Assess and predict the impacts of climate change on sea trout stocks, fisheries & biodiversity by harnessing the joint talents & capacity of the region’s fisheries research & management expertise to develop & apply a spatially structured ecosystem model.
Keywords
Climate change;
Economy;
Fish;
Impacts;
Fisheries management;
Trout;
Stock assessment;
Genetic;
Marine Region
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West of Ireland (27.VIIb)
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Porcupine Bank (27.VIIc)
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Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
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Southwest of Ireland-West (27.VIIk)
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Southwest of Ireland-East (27.VIIj)
5
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