Acronym PROTECT
Category
Fisheries
Title Marine protected areas as a tool for ecosystem conservation and fisheries management Programme FP6
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP6 - Specific Targeted Innovation Project
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Research for Policy Support
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Thomas Kirk Sorensen Coordinator email tks@aqua.dtu.dk
Coordinator institution
DTU-AQUA - Technical University of Denmark; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Denmark)
Institutions involved
CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (United Kingdom) ,
FOI - Danish Research Institute of Food Economics (Denmark) ,
FGFRI - Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (Finland) ,
FRS - Fisheries Research Services (United Kingdom) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
IFM-GEOMAR - Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (Germany) ,
NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) ,
NERC - Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom) ,
MIR/SFI - Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia (Poland) ,
SBF - Swedish Board of Fisheries (Sweden) ,
UHH - University of Hamburg (Germany) ,
NA - University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2005 End year 2008 Funding (€) € 3,062,329 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/513670 Summary PROTECT seeks to provide European policy-makers with improved tools for the identification, design and management of Marine Protected Areas.
(1) To evaluate the potential of MPAs as a tool to protect sensitive and endangered species, habitats and ecosystems from the effects of fishing in the context of EU fisheries and marine environmental policies; (2) To outline and develop a suite of monitoring, assessment and management tools for MPAs to assist managers in assessing: fisheries impact on ecosystems, impact of different levels of protection, impact on fishery and related socio-economic effects; (3) To improve the linkage between science and management when designing and introducing future MPAs.
Keywords
Stock enhancement;
Habitat enhancement;
MPA;
Fisheries management;
Monitoring;
Marine Region
21
Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
42
Barents Sea (27.I)
3
Marine Region Map
