Acronym SaFENet
Category
Fisheries
Title Sustainable Fisheries in EU Mediterranean waters through network of MPAs 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 Paolo Guidetti Coordinator email paolo.guidetti@szn.it
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
COISPA - COISPA Technology and Research (Italy) ,
CIBM - Consorzio per il Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina ed Ecologia Applicata (Italy) ,
EII - Ecopath International Initiative (Spain) ,
POLIMI - Politecnico di Milano (Italy) ,
UNIGE - University of Genoa (Italy) ,
WWF IT - World Wide Fund for Nature Italy (Italy) ,
Start year 2015 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 562,432 Website http://ecoseas.unice.fr/index.php/research/en-cours/83-safenet-sustainable-fisheries-in-eu-mediterranean-waters-through-network-of-mpas Summary The action aims to identify coherent network(s) of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and other area-based fisheries management rules (e.g. temporary closures) whose emergent properties (namely the interactive effect of scaling-up MPAs) can help achieve fisheries maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and maximize over the long-term socio-economic benefits for the stakeholders in the north-western Mediterranean Sea (NWM). To meet this objective the partnership will apply the ecosystem-based approach to the management at both large scale and small scale fisheries in NWM. Project findings will be therefore key to achieve 1) good environmental status (GES; representing the main goal of Marine Strategy Framework Directive, MSFD) and 2) environmental, economic and social sustainability of fisheries (as dictated by Common Fisheries Policy, CFP). The project will be carried out addressing multiple sub-objectives with specific activities and tasks, at multiple spatial scales and combining existing information with new field data collected in a relevant number of case studies in order to perform both ecosystem-based and bio-economic modelling of a representative number of fisheries in the study area (i.e. NWM).
Specific objectives of the project are:
1) to collate existing data about environmental, economic, social and institutional dimensions of fisheries in the NWM in order to provide a state of the art and identify information gaps, including all data relevant about MPAs and other area-based fisheries management rules;
2) to perform field samplings to fill gaps previously identified;
3) to develop food-web ecological models and indicators:
i. (i) to assess the current impacts of different fishery management features (e.g. spatial regulations, fleet-specific management, species-specific quotas) in the NWM, and
ii. (ii) to simulate the effects of potential alternative configurations of MPA networks;
4) to integrate ecosystem-wide information with economic information to build spatially explicit bio-economic models and assess the performances of different management options from a multi-criteria perspective by considering and integrating stakeholders’ perspective;
5) to synthesize project findings in order to provide (management and policy) guidelines and recommendations, and to disseminate information to key stakeholders through specific tools (e.g. leaflets, web pages) and events (e.g. workshops).
Keywords
MPA;
Policy;
Fisheries management;
Sustainability;
Economy;
Marine Region
51
Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
55
Algeria (GSA 4)
68
South Levant (GSA 26)
69
Gulf of Gabes (GSA 14)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
49
Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
65
North Levant (GSA 24)
53
Northern Spain (GSA 6)
67
Levant (GSA 27)
70
Malta Island (GSA 15)
58
Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
59
Black Sea (GSA 29)
72
Gulf of Hammamet (GSA 13)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
52
Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
50
Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2)
56
Alboran Island (GSA 2)
64
Crete Island (GSA 23)
66
Cyprus Island (GSA 25)
71
South of Sicily (GSA 16)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
73
Azov Sea (GSA 30)
57
Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
63
Marmara Sea (GSA 28)
46
Corsica Island (GSA 8)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
75
Northern Tunisia (GSA 12)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
31
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