Acronym PERCEBES
Category
Fisheries
Title Tools for the transition to spatial management of coastal resources: the stalked barnacle fishery in SW Europe Programme International Cooperation
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-European Coordinator José Luis Acuña Coordinator email acuna@uniovi.es
Coordinator institution
UNIOVI - University of Oviedo (Spain)
Institutions involved
UPMC - Pierre and Marie Curie University (France) ,
ENSTA - Superior National School of Advanced Techniques (France) ,
UA - University of Aveiro (Portugal) ,
UVIGO - University of Vigo (Spain) ,
UÉ - Évora University (Portugal) ,
Start year 2017 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 559,108 Website https://www.biodiversa.org/1005/download Summary Project PERCEBES builds on the sheer diversity of management scenarios of the European Stalked Barnacle fishery, from open access through marine protected areas to Territorial Users Rights for Fishing, a kind of fine-scale, adaptive, spatial co-management system. PERCEBES will use that variety of management scenarios to develop a set of tools to forecast the implications of spatial management options on productivity, biodiversity and connectivity of barnacle stands, and to extract information to guide marine spatial planning in other contexts in the EU. PERCEBES is intended as a scientific and practical demonstration of the effects of SB harvesting on the biodiversity, productivity and connectivity of SB stands. This will be done by a continental-scale, Human Exclusion Experiment (HEE) and by construction of regional, spatially explicit Bioeconomic Models (BM) on the coasts of Alentejo (Portugal), Atlantic Islands (Galicia, Spain), Western Asturias (Asturias, Spain) and South Brittany (France), covering the latitudinal range where the barnacles are exploited in the EU. The HEE will use steel cages to simulate the effects of 1 and 2-year harvest halts and open plots as controls where harvest continues unimpeded. The HEE will test the effect of those treatments on the biodiversity, productivity and economic value of SB stands and on their potential to produce larvae. The results of the HEE will be linked to biophysical larval dispersal models to visualize the seeding effects of fallow or protected areas on other regions and the patterns of connectivity among managed or co-managed units. These models will be validated by direct measurement of recruitment distributed in time and space. PERCEBES contemplates a collaborative engagement of stakeholders, with fishers, administrations and NGOs involved in site selection, experiment surveillance and sample collection. PERCEBES seeks to stablish a consortium with the fishers to secure a large number of recruitment observations distributed in time and space. The project will combine results from experiments, hydrodynamic models and landings data into spatially explicit bioeconomic models which will allow the generation of “policyscapes” to optimize the conservation/exploitation trade-off. This is of interest for Administrations seeking to manage the SB fishery. At the end of PERCEBES, fishers, scientists, administrators and ONGs will participate in a facilitated workshop with the goal of producing a Policy Brief with recommendations based on the project results. PERCEBES will also produce a video documentary focused on the effects of harvesting on biodiversity patterns, intended for a general audience, and focused on the science of the interaction humans-ecosystem.
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Crustacean;
Exploitation;
Shellfish;
Larval dispersion;
Barnacle;
Marine Region
38
Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
3
Marine Region Map
