Analysing Strategic Management Measures for Fisheries
28 March 2014
Austria
SOCIOEC is working on solutions for future fisheries management that can be implemented at a regional level. The aim of this meeting was to define how the social and economic effects and impact on commercial fish stock of the management measures identified within the project will be evaluated.
SOCIOEC is an interdisciplinary project bringing fisheries economists, social scientists and biologists together with industry partners and other key stakeholders and the meeting also provided an opportunity for the partners to present and discuss their progress and expected outputs as the project nears its expected endpoint in February 2015.
Dr Ralf Döring, the SOCIOEC project coordinator, said: “We are facing a busy period between now and the end of the project. Partners have been doing excellent work analysing the different management measures applied in each of the specific case study areas considered in the project. They have been examining how these governance methods can be changed to facilitate self- and co-management of the different fisheries. The next step will be to evaluate the impacts of the proposed management measures in terms of their ability to achieve the general and specific ecological objectives of the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and other EU directives.”
Dr Loretta Malvarosa, who will lead the impact assessment of the different management measures, said: “We will analyse the effectiveness, efficiency and coherence of the different management measures. As part of this assessment we will consider their potential socioeconomic impact, taking into account different uncertainties and external factors such as, for example, changes in oil or fish market prices.”
The SOCIOEC project has analysed several fisheries in six different case study areas: the Baltic Sea case study has focused on the small scale fisheries in Natura 2000 sites; the North Sea case study focuses on flatfish, nephrops and cod fisheries; the Pelagic case study focuses on European Pelagic Fisheries and the migration of stocks in relation to the relative stability key and negotiations within EU countries as well as non-EU countries based on different migration scenarios; the western waters case study focuses on different fisheries in the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel, and ICES sub areas VI and VII; the Mediterranean case study focuses on the Black Sea Turkish anchovy fisheries, the Aegean trawl fishery, the demersal Tyrrhenian fishery and the Italian clam fishery in the Adriatic Sea; and finally, the Non-EU case study focuses on Icelandic fisheries.
For more information visit the SOCIOEC webpage www.socioec.eu.
Notes to Editors
The SOCIOEC consortium comprises 25 partners from 12 countries. The THÜNEN Institute of Sea Fisheries (TI-SF) is coordinating the project. AquaTT is the project dissemination partner. The project is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological development (FP7/2007-2013) under the grant agreement n°289192. The project was launched in March 2012 and is expected to finish in February 2015.
Dr Ralf Dӧring, SOCIOEC coordinator, is leading the fisheries economics unit at vTI-SF and has worked mainly on the implementation of the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management plans and the evaluation of long term gains compared to short term costs.
Loretta Malvarosa, SOCIOEC Work Package 5 leader and co-leader of the Mediterranean case of study, is a fisheries economist with consolidated experience in the analysis of socio economic aspects of Mediterranean fisheries.
Detailed partner profiles are available on request.
For press queries, please contact the project communications officer: Federico Cardona Pons, AquaTT (email: federico@aquatt.ie Tel: +353 1 644 9008).
AquaTT staff members are available to respond to queries in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
SOCIOEC is an interdisciplinary project bringing fisheries economists, social scientists and biologists together with industry partners and other key stakeholders and the meeting also provided an opportunity for the partners to present and discuss their progress and expected outputs as the project nears its expected endpoint in February 2015.
Dr Ralf Döring, the SOCIOEC project coordinator, said: “We are facing a busy period between now and the end of the project. Partners have been doing excellent work analysing the different management measures applied in each of the specific case study areas considered in the project. They have been examining how these governance methods can be changed to facilitate self- and co-management of the different fisheries. The next step will be to evaluate the impacts of the proposed management measures in terms of their ability to achieve the general and specific ecological objectives of the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and other EU directives.”
Dr Loretta Malvarosa, who will lead the impact assessment of the different management measures, said: “We will analyse the effectiveness, efficiency and coherence of the different management measures. As part of this assessment we will consider their potential socioeconomic impact, taking into account different uncertainties and external factors such as, for example, changes in oil or fish market prices.”
The SOCIOEC project has analysed several fisheries in six different case study areas: the Baltic Sea case study has focused on the small scale fisheries in Natura 2000 sites; the North Sea case study focuses on flatfish, nephrops and cod fisheries; the Pelagic case study focuses on European Pelagic Fisheries and the migration of stocks in relation to the relative stability key and negotiations within EU countries as well as non-EU countries based on different migration scenarios; the western waters case study focuses on different fisheries in the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel, and ICES sub areas VI and VII; the Mediterranean case study focuses on the Black Sea Turkish anchovy fisheries, the Aegean trawl fishery, the demersal Tyrrhenian fishery and the Italian clam fishery in the Adriatic Sea; and finally, the Non-EU case study focuses on Icelandic fisheries.
For more information visit the SOCIOEC webpage www.socioec.eu.
Notes to Editors
The SOCIOEC consortium comprises 25 partners from 12 countries. The THÜNEN Institute of Sea Fisheries (TI-SF) is coordinating the project. AquaTT is the project dissemination partner. The project is funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological development (FP7/2007-2013) under the grant agreement n°289192. The project was launched in March 2012 and is expected to finish in February 2015.
Dr Ralf Dӧring, SOCIOEC coordinator, is leading the fisheries economics unit at vTI-SF and has worked mainly on the implementation of the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management plans and the evaluation of long term gains compared to short term costs.
Loretta Malvarosa, SOCIOEC Work Package 5 leader and co-leader of the Mediterranean case of study, is a fisheries economist with consolidated experience in the analysis of socio economic aspects of Mediterranean fisheries.
Detailed partner profiles are available on request.
For press queries, please contact the project communications officer: Federico Cardona Pons, AquaTT (email: federico@aquatt.ie Tel: +353 1 644 9008).
AquaTT staff members are available to respond to queries in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.