Acronym WAKO II
Category
Fisheries
Title An integrated impact assessment of trammel net and beam trawl fisheries Programme National Programme
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 Coordinator Jochen Depestele Coordinator email Jochen.Depestele@ilvo.vlaanderen.be
Coordinator institution
EV ILVO - Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Belgium)
Institutions involved
UGent - Ghent University (Belgium) ,
INBO - Research Institute for Nature and Forest (Belgium) ,
RBINS - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2011 Funding (€) € 178,424 Website https://www.belspo.be/belspo/NorthSea/program/WAKO%20II_en.pdf Summary WAKO-II is the follow-up project of "Environmental impact evaluation of trammel net and beam trawl fisheries on the Belgian part of the North Sea" (WAKO-I). The former WAKO-I project served as stepping stone in the exploration of multi-disciplinary research and compiling expertise from biological-ecological and fisheries science. WAKO-II builds upon this base and bridges projects, exclusively focused on fundamental ecosystem research (such as Westbanks, the EU SCANS-II project, etc.) and fisheries projects (such as those financed through the European Fisheries Fund). As such, WAKO-II aims at scientifically underpinning the development of an integrated policy, reconciling the interests of the marine environment and fisheries. This study targets an integrated assessment of direct ecosystem effects of trammel net and beam trawl fisheries for the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS). A total of 4 workpackages are therefore drawn up, namely: (1) Quantification of the major direct, short-term effects of trammel net and beam trawl fisheries at the BPNS; (2) The development and application of a methodology for a sensitivity assessment of key species of each of the ecosystem components (endo-, epifauna, fish, sea birds and marine mammals); (3) The making of spatio-temporal distribution maps of these key species; (4) The integration of sensitivity maps of the key species and fishing effort.
(1) To fill out knowledge gaps in our understanding of trammel net and beam effects in the BPNS; (2) To set up an actual integrative approach to assess ecosystem effects of fishing effects.
Keywords
Fishing mortality;
Physical disturbance;
Trawling;
Trammel nets;
Environmental impact;
Bycatch;
Spatial planning;
Marine Region
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Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
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