Acronym MAREA - LANDMED
Category
Fisheries
Title Implications of the implementation of the landing obligations provisions in small pelagic fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea Programme DG MARE
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 Paolo Sartor Coordinator email sartor@cibm.it
Coordinator institution
CIBM - Consorzio per il Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina ed Ecologia Applicata (Italy)
Institutions involved
COISPA - COISPA Technology and Research (Italy) ,
CoNISMa - National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
CNR-IAMC - National Research Council; Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (Italy) ,
CNR-ISMAR - National Research Council; Institute of Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
IEO - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Spain) ,
Start year 2014 End year 2014 Funding (€) € 215,000 Website https://imbriw.hcmr.gr/landmed/ Summary The overall objective of the project was to assess the main implications of the implementation of the landing obligations, including the ‘de minimis’ provisions in the small pelagic fisheries in the Mediterranean. More in detail objectives were:
§ Identification and description of the main fisheries (per GSA) targeting sardine, anchovy, mackerel and horse mackerel.
§ Quantification in terms of number of vessels, catches, average effort deployed and economic performance of these fisheries.
§ Typology and quantitative assessment of the current fishing practices pertaining to these fisheries that lead to discarding (e.g. fishing area, seasonality, carrying capacity of the vessels, market factors).
§ Explore the potential impacts of the de minimis exemption through worked examples assuming a range of (pre-agreed) interpretations.
§ Identify a range of cases where the de minimis exemption could apply on the basis of the two conditionalities included in the Article 15 (i.e. improvements in selectivity are considered to be very "difficult" or "to avoid disproportionate costs of handling unwanted catches").
§ Provide advice for the implementation of the provisions above from a stock assessment, practical and control point of view.
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Sardine;
Economy;
Discard;
Mackerel;
Fishery policy;
Anchovy;
Environmental impact;
Fish;
Marine Region
62
Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
57
Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
49
Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
68
South Levant (GSA 26)
67
Levant (GSA 27)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
66
Cyprus Island (GSA 25)
74
Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
50
Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2)
71
South of Sicily (GSA 16)
70
Malta Island (GSA 15)
69
Gulf of Gabes (GSA 14)
64
Crete Island (GSA 23)
52
Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
72
Gulf of Hammamet (GSA 13)
56
Alboran Island (GSA 2)
55
Algeria (GSA 4)
75
Northern Tunisia (GSA 12)
53
Northern Spain (GSA 6)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
61
Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
46
Corsica Island (GSA 8)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
65
North Levant (GSA 24)
58
Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
51
Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
28
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