Acronym MAREA - DRIFTMED
Category
Fisheries
Title Identification and characterization of the small scale driftnets fisheries in Mediterranean Programme DG MARE
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 European Coordinator Alexis Conides Coordinator email conides@hcmr.gr
Coordinator institution
CIBM - Consorzio per il Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina ed Ecologia Applicata (Italy)
Institutions involved
COISPA - COISPA Technology and Research (Italy) ,
CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
CNR-IAMC - National Research Council; Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (Italy) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2014 Funding (€) € 9,771 Website NA Summary DRIFTMED is a DG MARE project, with the main objective of identifying and characterizing, both for the past and the present, the small scale driftnet fisheries (SSD fisheries) in the Mediterranean. Other specific objectives were to characterize the main fisheries/métiers in terms of fishing capacity/activity and composition of the catches, to review all the existing provision regulating these fisheries, to assess the economic and their social relevance and, finally, to produce an evaluation of the feasibility of the use of alternative gears to exploit the same resources. The structure of the project has been organised according to four inter-correlated and sequential workpackages.
Goals:
1) Identify and describe past and currently active EU Mediterranean fisheries using driftnets of length equal or smaller than 2.5 km (small scale driftnets) to exploit species other than large pelagic migratory species and not included in Annex VIII of Council Regulation (EC) n° 894/97 as amended by Regulation (EC) n° 1239/98 (desk study and field study).
2) Provide technical information on the driftnets gear (mesh size; twine thickness, rigging ratio, etc.) that are adequate to exploit species other than those listed in the Annex VIII of Regulation (EC) n° 1239/98 (desk study and field study).
Keywords
Fishing fleets;
Catch;
Fisheries management;
Economy;
Small scale fisheries;
Drift nets;
Fishery policy;
Marine Region
56
Alboran Island (GSA 2)
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
71
South of Sicily (GSA 16)
55
Algeria (GSA 4)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
57
Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
66
Cyprus Island (GSA 25)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
49
Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
53
Northern Spain (GSA 6)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
70
Malta Island (GSA 15)
58
Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
52
Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
16
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