Blue Bio Database - Database of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology Projects

The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

Acronym
Category
	Fisheries
Title
Programme
Instrument (FP6) Contact Type (FP7) Strand (Interreg)
Theme (FP7) Activity Area (FP6) Regional Area (Interreg) Action (COST)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Funding source
Coordinator
Coordinator email
Coordinator institution
Institutions involved
	AquaBioTech Group Ltd
	French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea; Indian Ocean's Ifremer Delegation
	Les Pêcheurs de Bretagne
	National Center for Meteorological Research
	SATHOAN
	University of Copenhagen
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Website
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
	Climate change
	Fish
	Fish biology
	Impacts
	Tuna
Marine Region
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Bay of Biscay; Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Bay of Biscay; Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Bay of Biscay; Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
	MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA (GFCM Area); Western Mediterranean; Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)

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