Acronym SEAM
Category
Aquaculture
Title Towards improved Baltic Sea environmental assessment and monitoring Programme BONUS
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP6 - SMEs-Co-operative Research Contract
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Specific Research Activities for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Lindegarth Mats Coordinator email mats.lindegarth@havsmiljoinstitutet.se
Coordinator institution
WUR-IMARES - Wageningen University and Research; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (Netherlands)
Institutions involved
NA - Bluewater Flatfish Farms Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
NA - ECOMARES MariFarm GmbH (Germany) ,
NA - Ecomares Zeeland-Vis BV (Netherlands) ,
NA - France Turbot SAS (France) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
GroVisCo - Groente- en Viskwekerij Cornelisse BV (Netherlands) ,
NA - Seafarm BV (Netherlands) ,
NA - Swansea University (United Kingdom) ,
UM2 - University of Montpellier 2 (France) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2018 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 449,692 Website https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/bonus-169/bonus-call-2017-synthesis/towards-improved-baltic-sea-environmental-assessment-and-monitoring Summary HELCOM and ICES organize a long-established coordination of monitoring in the Baltic Sea. It supports regular comprehensive environmental assessments and regular advice for fisheries management. European and Baltic Sea policy for the marine environment now presents demands for a variety of information on progress towards a good environmental status and the sustainability of ecosystem services. A key challenge is to ensure that monitoring activity serves the widest range of needs in a streamlined way. New innovations for data collection and interpretation may also offer possibilities for further refining approaches to provide an increased return of information on investments in monitoring. In this project we will identify gaps in relation to policy needs and scientific innovations and set out potential routes for improvement. In particular, we will critically analyse the adequacy of current Baltic Sea monitoring to support assessment requirements under different environmental polices. We will review recent innovative approaches for a more cost-effective collection of data and evaluate their potential application in an operational monitoring programme. These steps will lead to a proposal for a revised monitoring system for the Baltic Sea, which we will test with key policy and technical stakeholders. The analytical part of the project will focus on the offshore sub-basins, which requires particular coordination and cooperation between countries bordering the Baltic Sea.
Keywords
Land-based aquaculture;
Turbot;
Fish biology;
Recirculating systems;
Fish;
Flatfish;
Engineering;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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