Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Developing fisheries surveys to incorporate other ecosystem monitoring requirements: saving money and improving advice 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 Sven Kupschus Coordinator email sven.kupschus@cefas.co.uk
Coordinator institution
CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (United Kingdom)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2013 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 355,479 Website http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&ProjectID=18854&FromSearch=Y&Publisher=1&SearchText=saving%20money&SortString=ProjectCode&SortOrder=Asc&Paging=10#Description Summary The project will assess how the current fisheries monitoring work could be integrated with other monitoring requirements and data collection methods to meet Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Fish stock surveys are already carried out in an international context (coordinated by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea), adapting these and incorporating ecosystem monitoring should also ideally be carried out in an international context. The project will bring together the institutions responsible for monitoring and reporting on both the CFP and the MSFD to develop a common internationally and cross governmentally agreed approach to monitoring that is scientifically robust and appropriate for management.
The project will review the theory and principles of integrated ecosystem monitoring and provide the scientific justification for developing integrated surveys in UK seas. It will identify the spatial and temporal scales at which the important ecosystem processes occur in the Celtic sea and use this information to evaluate different survey designs. It will undertake three internationally coordinated monitoring surveys in the Celtic Sea with additional ecosystem monitoring designed into the survey. It will test the utility of the integrated monitoring program approach by using all available ecosystem monitoring information to examine the precision of estimates of ecosystem status indicators (where available), the ability elucidate ecosystem processes in the Celtic Sea, and the significance of gaps left behind. It will inform on the costs and benefits of various approaches to Common Fisheries Policy and Marine Strategy Framework Directive monitoring when considering implementation in other regional seas.
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Fishery policy;
Monitoring;
Ecosystem approach;
Marine Region
10
Celtic Sea North (27.VIIg)
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