Acronym PROMPT
Category
Fisheries
Title Potential Migratory Processes of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna 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 NA Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
Ifremer-MARBEC - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea; Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation (France)
Institutions involved
ABT Group - AquaBioTech Group Ltd (Malta) ,
Ifremer-DOI - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea; Indian Ocean's Ifremer Delegation (France) ,
NA - Les Pêcheurs de Bretagne (France) ,
CNRM - National Center for Meteorological Research (France) ,
SATHOAN - SATHOAN (France) ,
KU - University of Copenhagen (Denmark) ,
Start year 2020 End year 2025 Funding (€) € 1,774,388 Website NA Summary Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is an emblematic migratory large pelagic species, commercially
valuable and whose exploitation depends on its migrations. The current activity of purse seiners, about 60
percent of the total landings, is based on spawning migrations in the Mediterranean. Over the past 5 years,
bluefin tuna have been observed and caught in Brittany and Manche, where he had been missing for almost 60 years. The modification of the migratory behaviour of bluefin tuna therefore has considerable implications for areas and periods of exploitation. In the current context of climate change and stock rebuilding, understanding the processes associated with bluefin tuna migrations and their inclusion in management processes are therefore essential for its sustainable use.
The ecological questions that arise are:
1. What are the migrations of bluefin tuna targeted by French fisheries?
2. What are the processes involved and their relative importance in these migrations in the context of
change current climate?
The PROMPT project proposes to address these questions 1) by analysing the trajectories of bluefin tuna on the different French facades, 2) by studying the influence of the conditions environmental data on the abundance index based on aerial monitoring and provided by France and, more broadly, 3) by developing means of observation to describe and understand the response of migratory dynamics to climate change.
Keywords
Fish biology;
Climate change;
Impacts;
Fish;
Tuna;
Marine Region
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Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
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Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
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Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
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Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
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