Acronym EMODnet MEDSEA Checkpoint
Category
Fisheries
Title European Marine Observation and Data Network MEDSEA Checkpoint - Growth and innovation in ocean economic Gaps and priorities in sea basin observation and data. LotT No: 2 – The Mediterranean 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 Nadia Pinardi Coordinator email n.pinardi@sincem.unibo.it
Coordinator institution
UNIBO - University of Bologna (Italy)
Institutions involved
SOCIB - Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (Spain) ,
NA - CLU Srl (Italy) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
INGV - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Italy) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
CNR-ISMAR - National Research Council; Institute of Marine Sciences (Italy) ,
OCEANSCAT - Oceans Catalonia International SL (Spain) ,
UCY OC - University of Cyprus; Oceanography Centre (Cyprus) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 1,095,000 Website https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/checkpoint/medsea Summary In the Green Paper 'Marine Knowledge 2020: from seabed mapping to ocean forecasting' (COM-2012-437) it is explained that central to the unlocking of the economic potential of Europe's marine observations is the "concept of a European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet), a network of marine organisations that would provide a single entry point for accessing and retrieving marine data derived.. from the hundreds of databases.. throughout the EU. It would aiso deliver digitai map layers of parameters derived from these primary data for entire sea basins around Europe This tender aims at setting up an EMODnet Portal {so-called EMODnet Med-Seacheckpoint) that will serve to quality assess, extract the synergies between and identify the gaps of, the present monitoring data sets for the entire Mediterranean Sea. The data will be extracted from the existing EMODnet thematic portals, the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Marine Service, the JRC Data Collection Framework for Fisheries and other initiatives existing at the sea basin scale. Seven tasks or 'challenges' are chosen to test how comprehensive and accurate the monitoring and forecasting data are at the Mediterranean scale. They are: 1) Windfarm siting; 2) Marine Protected areas; 3) Oil Platforms leak; 4) Climate and Coastal protection; 5) Fisheries management; 6) Marine Environment; 7) River inputs. The Mediterranean Sea has been the site of an intense data collection activity for the past 30 years and especially in the last 15 years with the advent of operational oceanography which provided real time, high accuracy satellite data (infrared, visible and radar imaging sensors) and a suite of semi-autonomous. in situ technologies (ARGO floats, surface drifters, gliders and ship of opportunity profilers) complementary to national coastal monitoring networks and observatories. This data is now available in real time and in archived mode, quality controlled and processed and it is assembled in the GMES Monitoring and Forecasting Center for the Mediterranean Sea providing analyses, reanalyses and short term ocean current forecasts. Different is the situation of marine biochemical state variables, land inputs and coastal evolution inputs which are still far from being monitored operationally and shared across national boundaries, except for data coming from satellites. Again, different is the situation for fishery data sets where technological developments are needed to reliably assess the resources. The problem of data dissemination for multiple usage and users is a central one to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive: good environmental status assessments will require cross-borders data exchanges and reliable long time series data in order to estimate trends that are key indicators of changes. The construction of an EMODnet-MedSea-checkpoint Portal that could synthetize the information available from European portais and national systems for the MFSD assessments, offshore industrial activities, fisheries management and protection of natural resources, is of paramount importance. This will allow to start a mechanism that will enable the evaluation of the quality of the present day monitoring systems in terms of accessibility, availability, multiple-use, efficiency, reliability, time consistency, space consistency, etc. and the planning of the technological advancements, new accessibility, new assembly protocols and observational priorities required in the future to meet the challenges. The objective of this tender is to examine the current data collection, observation and data assembly programmes in the Mediterranean Sea, analyse how they can be optimised and deliver the findings to stakeholders through an internet portal.
Keywords
Physical disturbance;
Fishing mortality;
Bycatch;
Environmental impact;
Discard;
MPA;
Fisheries management;
Monitoring;
Marine Region
65
North Levant (GSA 24)
60
Western Ionian Sea (GSA 19)
47
Ligurian and North Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 9)
67
Levant (GSA 27)
69
Gulf of Gabes (GSA 14)
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Algeria (GSA 4)
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
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Alboran Island (GSA 2)
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Crete Island (GSA 23)
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Northern Spain (GSA 6)
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Northern Tunisia (GSA 12)
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Northern Alboran Sea (GSA 1)
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Southern Ionian Sea (GSA 21)
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Southern Alboran Sea (GSA 3)
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Northern Adriatic (GSA 17)
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Sardinia (east) (GSA 11.2)
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Cyprus Island (GSA 25)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
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Aegean Sea (GSA 22)
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Corsica Island (GSA 8)
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Malta Island (GSA 15)
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Gulf of Hammamet (GSA 13)
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Sardinia (west) (GSA 11.1)
48
South Tyrrhenian Sea (GSA 10)
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South of Sicily (GSA 16)
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Eastern Ionian Sea (GSA 20)
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South Levant (GSA 26)
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Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
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