Acronym MEESO
Category
Fisheries
Title Ecologically and economically sustainable mesopelagic fisheries 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 Webjørn Melle Coordinator email webjoern.melle@hi.no
Coordinator institution
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
TEAGASC - Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Ireland) ,
NA - Azti (Spain) ,
CLS - Collecte Localisation Satellites SA (France) ,
EFFOP - European Fishmeal and Fish Oil Producers (Denmark) ,
IMAR - Institute of Marine Research (Portugal) ,
ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Denmark) ,
NA - Irish Sea Fisheries Board (Ireland) ,
NA - Liegruppen AS (Norway) ,
MI - Marine Institute (Ireland) ,
MRI - Marine Research Institute (Iceland) ,
NOC - National Oceanographic Center (United Kingdom) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
NA - Pelagia AS (Norway) ,
NA - SINTEF Ocean (Norway) ,
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) ,
NA - University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom) ,
WUR-IMARES - Wageningen University and Research; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (Netherlands) ,
WMU - World Maritime University (Sweden) ,
Start year 2019 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 6,396,634 Website https://www.meeso.org Summary The mesopelagic zone, at depths between 200 and 1 000 metres below the ocean’s surface, could contain a total fish biomass that is 100 times the annual catch of all existing fisheries. The EU-funded MEESO project will quantify the spatio-temporal distributions of biomass, production and ecosystem role of mesopelagic resources. It will assess options to sustainably exploit them. Mesopelagic organisms are one of the largest unexploited resource left in the world’s oceans. MEESO will develop new tools and technologies for abundance estimation, such as submersible acoustics and fine meshed trawls, as well as assessment and management roadmaps. MEESO will explore new technologies for commercial fishing and processing and map contaminant and nutrient contents to explore the basis for a viable and sustainable fishery. Its aim will be to find a balance between exploitation, sustainability and viability of the mesopelagic resources.
Keywords
Biotechnology;
Seafood;
Sustainability;
Stock assessment;
Fisheries management;
Biomass;
Fishing technology;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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