The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

VECTORS
Fisheries
Vectors of change in oceans and seas marine life: impact on economic sectors
FP7
 FP7 - Large-Scale Integrating Project
ENVIRONMENT – Environment (including Climate change)
Cooperation
European
Melanie Austen
mcva@pml.ac.uk
PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory (United Kingdom)
AAU - Aalborg University (Denmark),  AU - Aarhus University (Denmark),  NA - Bangor University (United Kingdom),  CESA - Community of European Shipyards' Associations (Belgium),  DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom),  FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy),  IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France),  NA - Institute for Life, Food and HorticUltUral Sciences and Landscaping (France),  CIESM - International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (Monaco),  IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (Israel),  KU - Klaipeda University (Lithuania),  IOW - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (Germany),  OGS - National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (Italy),  CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy),  CNR - National Research Council (Italy),  NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy),  IO-PAS - Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology (Poland),  KNAW - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Netherlands),  SAHFOS - Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (United Kingdom),  CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (Spain),  NA - Stephan Gollasch Go Consult (Germany),  NA - Stichting Deltares (Netherlands),  DLO - Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (Netherlands),  NA - Tarrasense Conditioning Association (Spain),  DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark),  Thünen Institute - Thunen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (Germany),  UCD - University College Dublin (Ireland),  UHH - University of Hamburg (Germany),  UHULL - University of Hull (United Kingdom),  UNI-LJ - University of Ljubljana (Slovenia),  UNIPV - University of Pavia (Italy),  UNIPI - University of Pisa (Italy),  URN - University of Rouen Normandy (France),  USTAN - University of St Andrews (United Kingdom),  UT - University of Tartu (Estonia),  UBO - University of Western Brittany (France),  WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands), 
2011
2015
€ 16,581,572
http://www.marine-vectors.eu/
Marine life makes a substantial contribution to the economy and society of Europe. VECTORS will elucidate the drivers, pressures and vectors that cause change in marine life, the mechanisms by which they do so, the impacts that they have on ecosystem structures and functioning, and on the economics of associated marine sectors and society. VECTORS will particularly focus on causes and consequences of invasive alien species, outbreak forming species, and changes in fish distribution and productivity. New and existing knowledge and insight will be synthesised and integrated to project changes in marine life, ecosystems and economies under future scenarios for adaptation and mitigation in the light of new technologies, fishing strategies and policy needs. VECTORS will evaluate current forms and mechanisms of marine governance in relation to the vectors of change. Based on its findings, VECTORS will provide solutions and tools for relevant stakeholders and policymakers, to be available for use during the lifetime of the project. The project will address a complex array of interests comprising areas of concern for marine life, biodiversity, sectoral interests, regional seas, and academic disciplines as well as the interests of stakeholders. VECTORS will ensure that the links and interactions between all these areas of interest are explored, explained, modelled and communicated effectively to the relevant stakeholders. The VECTORS consortium is extremely experienced and genuinely multidisciplinary. It includes a mixture of natural scientists with knowledge of socio-economic aspects, and social scientists (environmental economists, policy and governance analysts and environmental law specialists) with interests in natural system functioning. VECTORS is therefore fully equipped to deliver the integrated interdisciplinary research required to achieve its objectives with maximal impact in the arenas of science, policy, management and society. To collate understanding of the different current and potential future pressures and vectors of change in the marine environment. To better understand the mechanisms of changes in marine life and how human activity drives them. To determine the impacts of changes in marine life on ecosystems, their structure and functioning, the services they provide, as well as the economic and societal implications. To project the future changes and consequences of multi-sectoral human activities in the marine environment under future possible scenarios of adaptation and mitigation. To synthesise the derived information into innovative, predictive management tools and strategies targeted to different policy makers and other stakeholders.
Alien species; Policy; Impacts; Anthropic activity; Climate change;
Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24) Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2) South of Sicily (GSA 16) Malta Island (GSA 15) East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28) Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa) Algeria (GSA 4) Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1) Gulf of Lions (GSA 7) Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32) Northern Spain (GSA 6) Eastern English Channel (27.VIId) South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10) Corsica Island (GSA 8) Sound, Belt Sea or Transition Area (27.IIIb,c) Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29) Northern Tunisia (GSA 12) Southern North Sea (27.IVc) Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25) Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30) Northern North Sea (27.IVa) Alboran Island (GSA 2) Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3) Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9) Western English Channel (27.VIIe) Balearic Island (GSA 5) Central North Sea (27.IVb) Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1) Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31) Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26) Gulf of Hammamet (GSA 13) West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
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