Acronym SEAwise
Category
Fisheries
Title Shaping ecosystem based fisheries management 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 Anna Rindorf Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Institutions involved
ARC - Athens-Research Center for Innovation in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies (Greece) ,
NA - Azti (Spain) ,
COISPA - COISPA Technology and Research (Italy) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
HCMR - Hellenic Center for Marine Research (Greece) ,
ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Denmark) ,
NA - Kiel University (Germany) ,
MI - Marine Institute (Ireland) ,
NA - Mindfully Wired Communications Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
AGRO Institute - National Institute of Higher Education for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (France) ,
POLIMI - Politecnico di Milano (Italy) ,
ILVO - Research Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (Belgium) ,
BIOR - Scientific Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment (Latvia) ,
DEFRA - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Spanish Fisheries Confederation (Spain) ,
NA - Stichting Wageningen Research (Netherlands) ,
Thünen Institute - Thunen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (Germany) ,
USTAN - University of St Andrews (United Kingdom) ,
NA - University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom) ,
UT - University of Tartu (Estonia) ,
UBO - University of Western Brittany (France) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2025 Funding (€) € 8,043,612 Website https://seawiseproject.org/ Summary SEAwise will address the key challenge preventing implementation of a fully operational European Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management: the need to increase fisheries benefits while reducing ecosystem impact under environmental change and increasing competition for space. The SEAwise network of stakeholders, advisory bodies and scientists will co-design key priorities and approaches to provide an open knowledge base on European Social-Ecological Fisheries Systems. SEAwise will innovate the prediction of social indicators of small-scale fisheries, coastal communities, carbon footprint and human health benefits. Using these indicators in fisheries models will help give advice on economically effective and socially acceptable governance under climate change, productivity changes, and the landing obligation. SEAwise will link the first ecosystem-scale assessment of maritime activities’ impacts on habitats with the fish stocks they support. Using ecosystem effects on fishing, including environmental metrics, density dependence, predation, stock health indicators and habitat extent will improve stock productivity predictions. Estimating effects of fishing on sensitive species, benthic habitats, food webs, biodiversity and litter allows evaluation of the mutual consistency of objectives for ecological and social systems. Multispecies-multifleet models will provide ecosystem forecasts of the effect of fisheries management measures. SEAwise will identify the simplest possible combination of management measures and investigate portfolio diversification as an approach for managing ecosystem resilience and climate adaptation. SEAwise tools and courses for ICES, GFCM, stakeholders and decision makers will ensure that these methods can be used directly in Mediterranean, western European, North Sea and Baltic Sea waters. The predictions will inform an online advice tool highlighting stock- and fisheries-specific social and ecological effects and management trade-offs.
Keywords
Physical disturbance;
Environmental impact;
Economy;
Small scale fisheries;
Fisheries management;
Spatial planning;
Marine Region
20
Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
4
Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
16
East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
21
Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
8
Bristol Channel (27.VIIf)
23
Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
11
Celtic Sea South (27.VIIh)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
34
Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
7
Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
18
West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
10
Celtic Sea North (27.VIIg)
22
Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
23
Marine Region Map
