Acronym SIA-SIC
Category
Fisheries
Title Studio sull’impatto dei relitti bellici e mercantili sulla pesca nello Stretto di Sicilia ed in altri mari siciliani - Study of the impact on fishing from war and merchant ships wrecks in the Strait of Sicily and in other Sicilian seas Programme Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
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 Franco Andaloro Coordinator email franco.andaloro@isprambiente.it
Coordinator institution
ISPRA - Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Italy)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2010 End year 2012 Funding (€) € NA Website NA Summary The project SIASIC, "Study of impact of War and Merchant Wrecks on fishing on Sicilian Strait and the other Sicilians Seas is the result of the agreement between the Fisheries Department of Sicily Region the Institute 's Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC-CNR) and the Superior Institute for the Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Palermo Branch. A "wreck" is what remains from a vessel, aircraft or any other object of significant size that, for various reasons (structural failure, fire, shifting of cargo, accidental collision, sinking voluntary acts of war or terrorism), is partially or totally submerged by the waters of the sea. The wreck can therefore be totally o partially sunk or semi-floating. The effects of the presence of a wreck at sea are complex, direct and indirect. Besides the well-known direct effects related to the release of pollutants wrecks may exercise more complex effects on biodiversity of fish and associated benthic communities as well as on larger scale marine ecosystem. The identification of potentially polluting wrecks, with particular reference to those warlike with arms sunk in the sea, it requires before. For this reason was carried out the study of the existing literature, the consultation of official and unofficial sources, the production of interviews with operators of fishing, and the collection of information does not always easy to access. In the present study, in order to obtain an updated data base, was analysed the official bibliography on the sinking of merchant and military ships in the study area, since the Second World War and we built a database containing all the available information appropriately structured and coded according to the European guidelines. Oceanographic cruises were carried out aimed at finding wrecks on the basis of target acquired. On wreck found survey with multibeam , with Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV), sediment sampling and sampling of fish species associated with wrecks were performed.
Goals:
(1) To build a database containing all the available information on the sinking of merchant and military ships in the study area, since the Second World War, appropriately structured and coded according to the European guidelines; (2) To survey some target wrecks with multibeam and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV), sediment sampling and sampling of fish species associated in order to study the ecosystem effect.
Keywords
Anthropic activity;
Environmental impact;
Habitat mapping;
Marine Region
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
71
South of Sicily (GSA 16)
3
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