Acronym DEVOTES-NO
Category
Fisheries
Aquaculture
Title DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing good Environmental Status in Norway
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 Alice Newton
Coordinator email anewton@ualg.pt
Coordinator institution
NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2012
End year 2016
Funding (€) € NA
Website NA
Summary Marine biodiversity is fundamental to support marine ecosystem function and also supports economically important activities in Norway (e.g. fisheries and aquaculture). Multiple pressures are exerted on the marine ecosystem that thereby affect the status of marine biodiversity and impact human welfare, (e.g. the effect of Non Indigenous Species, eutrophication and the effect of fisheries harvesting). Furthermore, marine biodiversity is also subject to global drivers, such as increase temperatures and decrease pH from climate change. Knowledge derived from the project will support integrated ecosystem-based management of the oceans and coastal areas, in accordance with Norwegian policy, e.g. the Marine Resources Act of Norway (2009), and further inform the North Sea management plan (http://www.klif.no/no/english/english/Whats-new/We-must-take-care-of-the-North-Sea-and-Skagerrak/). The project will develop functional and cost effective marine biodiversity indicators and tools for the assessment of environmental status and ecological status, which are necessary for the implementation by Norway of OSPAR and the WFD in coastal waters. Such environmental quality measures and indicators are necessary to enable a precautionary principle for sustainable ecosystem management of marine resources. The project will also explore eco-innovation solutions such as the co-benefits of aquaculture further down the food chain, (e.g. of filter-feeding bivalves for the production of food, aquaculture feed and mitigation of eutrophication).
Keywords
Indicators;
Biodiversity;
Integrated management;
Marine Region
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
3
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