Acronym SOCIOEC
Category
Fisheries
Title Socio economic effects of management measures of the future CFP Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project targeted to a Special Group (such as SMEs)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
KBBE – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Ralf Doering Coordinator email ralf.doering@ti.bund.de
Coordinator institution
Thünen Institute - Thunen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (Germany)
Institutions involved
NA - A/S Læsø Fiskeindustri (Denmark) ,
AAU - Aalborg University (Denmark) ,
AquaTT - AquaTT UETP Ltd (Ireland) ,
NA - Azti (Spain) ,
KTU - Black Sea Technical University (Turkey) ,
CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany) ,
NA - Clodiamare1 SC (Italy) ,
NA - Dennis Nissen (Germany) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
IREPA - Institute for Economic Research in Fishery and Aquaculture (Italy) ,
JRC - Joint Research Centre (Belgium) ,
NA - Kutterfisch Zentrale GmbH (Germany) ,
NA - Les Pêcheurs de Bretagne (France) ,
MI - Marine Institute (Ireland) ,
NA - Marine Law and Ocean Policy Research Services Ltd (Ireland) ,
NA - Mediterranean Aquafarm Services SL (Spain) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
NUI Galway - National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) ,
DLO - Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (Netherlands) ,
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) ,
KU - University of Copenhagen (Denmark) ,
HI - University of Iceland (Iceland) ,
NA - University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom) ,
UBO - University of Western Brittany (France) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 3,829,884 Website http://www.socioec.eu/ Summary SOCIOEC is an interdisciplinary, European wide project bringing together scientists from several fisheries science disciplines with industry partners and other key stakeholders to work in an integrated manner on solutions for future fisheries management that can be implemented at a regional level. The central concept is to provide a mechanism for developing measures that are consistent with the overarching sustainability objectives of the EU, and that can provide consensus across all stakeholders. The first step will be to develop a coherent and consistent set of management objectives, which will address ecological; economic and social sustainability targets. The objectives should be consistent with the aims of the CFP, MSFD and other EU directives, but they should also be understandable by the wider stakeholder community and engage their support. This will then lead to the proposal of a number of potential management measures, based on existing or new approaches. The second step will be to analyse the incentives for compliance provided by these measures. In particular, we will examine fishers' responses and perceptions of these measures, based on historical analysis as well as direct consultation and interviews. This project will also examine how the governance can be changed to facilitate self- and co-management to ensure fisher buy-in to promising management measures. In particular, the project will focus on the interpretation of overarching (i.e. EU) objectives in local and regional contexts. Finally, the project will examine the impacts of the management measures that emerge from this process, particularly in terms of their economic and social impacts. The IA analysis will be integrated by evaluating the proposed measures against the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency and coherence. Special attention will be paid in evaluating the proposed management measures performance in terms of their ability to achieve the general and specific ecological objectives.
The central concept is to provide a mechanism for developing management measures that are consistent with the overarching sustainability objectives of the EU, and that can provide buying and consensus across all stakeholders. The first step was to develop a coherent and consistent set of objectives for fisheries management, which address ecological, economic and social sustainability targets. The objectives should be consistent with the aims of the CFP, MSFD and other EU directives, but they should also be understandable by the wider stakeholder community and engage their support. This will then lead to the proposal of a number of potential management measures, based on existing or new approaches. The second step is to analyse the incentives for compliance provided by these management measures. In particular, we will examine fishers' responses and perceptions of these measures, based on historical analysis as well as direct consultation and interviews (partners from the fishing industry are directly involved in the project to achieve that). This part of the project also examines how the governance of such management measures should operate. In particular, the project focuses on the interpretation of overarching (i.e. EU) objectives in local and regional contexts. Finally, the project will examine the impact of the management measures that emerge from this process, particularly in terms of their economic and social impacts on the industry and the wider community.
Keywords
Fishery policy;
Sustainability;
Fisheries management;
Economy;
Marine Region
35
West of Bay of Biscay (27.VIIIe)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
10
Celtic Sea North (27.VIIg)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
8
Bristol Channel (27.VIIf)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
11
Celtic Sea South (27.VIIh)
4
Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
7
Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
36
Iceland Grounds (27.Va)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
9
Western English Channel (27.VIIe)
23
Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
34
Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
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