Acronym HERRING
Category
Fisheries
Title Joint cross-border actions for the sustainable management of a natural resource Programme Interreg IV
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
Strand A
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Baltic Sea Region
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Nardine Stybel Coordinator email stybel@eucc-d.de
Coordinator institution
EUCC - Coastal Union Germany (Germany)
Institutions involved
NMFRI - National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Poland) ,
TI-OF - Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (Germany) ,
WMU - World Maritime University (Sweden) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 860,057 Website http://baltic-herring.eucc-d.de/about.html Summary Coastal areas play an important role in the Baltic Sea ecosystem and provide habitat for a great variety of living organisms. However, Baltic shorelines are also important areas for human activities and as such are of high economic interest. They increasingly support human uses and claims for space through transport, fishing, tourism, and energy generation and supply activities. HERRING looks at a typical ecosystem resource where these demands for space collide: coastal spawning grounds. The herring is a meaningful example to look at as the species plays a crucial role in the food chain and the marine ecosystem and has a long tradition as food fish. Spawning and nursery habitats for the Baltic herring are found in south Baltic coastal waters, particularly in the German Greifswalder Bodden, the Polish Vistula Lagoon and the Swedish coast of Blekinge and Skåne, working as regional case studies in this project. The management of these areas has to balance many claims and economic interests, so that their role as crucial prerequisites for the development of fish populations is often inadequately included into holistic management strategies.
HERRING will account for this and aims at an improved integrated management of coastal ecosystems and of one of their key natural resources herring. The activities will compile knowledge for the coastal case studies on their ecological condition, on the impacts of human activities, and on the multi-level institutions (regional, national, international) and management instruments governing the use and protection of coastal herring spawning grounds.
Keywords
Spatial planning;
Fish;
Herring;
Impacts;
Anthropic activity;
Spawning area;
Fisheries management;
Integrated management;
Marine Region
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Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30)
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Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
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West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
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Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31)
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Marine Region Map
