Acronym MINOUW
Category
Fisheries
Title Science, Technology, and Society Initiative to minimize Unwanted Catches in European Fisheries Programme H2020
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 Francesc Maynou Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Institutions involved
CCMAR - Centre for Marine Sciences (Portugal) ,
CIBM - Consorzio per il Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina ed Ecologia Applicata (Italy) ,
NA - Government of the Balearic Islands (Spain) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (Israel) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
CNR-IAMC - National Research Council; Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (Italy) ,
CNR-ISMAR - National Research Council; Institute of Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
Nisea - NISEA Società Cooperativa (Italy) ,
UPV/EHU - Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea) (Spain) ,
UH - University of Helsinki (Finland) ,
HI - University of Iceland (Iceland) ,
UYORK - University of York (United Kingdom) ,
WWF BE - World Wide Fund for Nature Belgium (Belgium) ,
Start year 2015 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 6,239,623 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/634495 Summary The complexity of the problem of banning discards and bringing all unwanted catches to land makes it necessary to follow a multi-actor approach, whereby scientists, fisheries technologists, fish producers and NGOs work collaboratively to provide the scientific and technical basis to achieve the gradual elimination of discards in European marine fisheries. The project’s overall objective is to minimise unwanted catches by incentivising the adoption of fishing technologies and practices that reduce pre-harvest mortality and post-harvest discards, while avoiding damage to sensitive marine species and habitats. The general approach is based on technical/technological and socioeconomic solutions on a case-by-case analysis of the main types of European fisheries. The project will analyze existing and potential discard-mitigating innovative technologies in workshop roundtables with participation of fishers, technologists and scientists. The technologies selected will be tested in field trials to experimentally assess their efficiency: among other, improved precatch identification with observational technologies and pre-harvest loss reduction by gear modification and switching to light impact gear. The results will be analyzed in terms of technological advances, marketability and cost-benefit analysis. Other actions included in the project are social and economic instruments to incentivise selective fishing and discourage discarding practices, such as ecolabelling, fisheries certification and promoting awareness among industry and consumers, and mathematical modelling of ecosystem effects of unwanted catches reduction.
Keywords
Vessel technology;
Gear technology;
Market;
Discard;
Economy;
Gear selectivity;
Environmental impact;
Bycatch;
Fishing technology;
Engineering;
Marine Region
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
36
Iceland Grounds (27.Va)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
53
Northern Spain (GSA 6)
38
Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
71
South of Sicily (GSA 16)
11
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