Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems

Project Information

EcoScope

Grant agreement ID: 101000302

DOI 10.3030/101000302

EC signature date 5 May 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost € 7 919 413,75

EU contribution € 7 919 413,75

Coordinated by

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
Greece

Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Report on climatic parameters collections

Report on climatic parameters collections Collection time alignments and repository of open access data

Review of ecosystem based fisheries assessment and management advice practices in Europe

Review of ecosystembased fisheries assessment and management advice practices in Europe that will include fisheries and stock assessment data current management schemes measures and provision of scientific advice with respect to EBFM

Report on data quality and consistency

Report on data quality and consistency Quality check of all datasets that will be included in the platform or used elsewhere in the project

Report of First foresight workshop

Report of First foresight workshop the policy makers and stakeholders that will use the EcoScope Toolbox as well as experts in the field of toolbox development from the consortium will codesign a toolbox that can deliver what is required by policy makers and other stakeholders In addition the workshop will include the ocean observation and ocean database community

Other (3)

Communications toolbox

Communications toolbox Website logo social media profile and publicity materials

Development of MSP Challenge simulation platform for Eastern Mediterranean

Development of MSP Challenge simulation platform for the Eastern Mediterranean that will include two case studies Aegean Sea and Levantine Sea

EcoScope stakeholders website

EcoScope stakeholders website the hub of the Stakeholder Knowledge Exchange Forum and Stakeholder Surveys

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Global-scale parameters for ecological models

Author(s): Coro G, Bove P, Kesner-Reyes K
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 7, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01904-3

A need for a paradigm shift from anthropocentric to ecocentric fisheries management

Author(s): Tsikliras AC, Coro G, Daskalov G, Gremillet D, Scotti M, Sylaios G
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1295733, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1295733

Scientific progress made towards bridging the knowledge gap in the biology of Mediterranean marine fishes

Author(s): Daskalaki E, Koufalis E, Dimarchopoulou D, Tsikliras AC
Published in: PloS ONE, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) e0277383, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277383

Filling Gaps in Trawl Surveys at Sea through Spatiotemporal and Environmental Modelling

Author(s): Coro G, Bove P, Armelloni EN, Masnadi F, Scanu M, Scarcella G
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 919339., ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.919339

Trophic structure and fishing impacts on an oligotrophic ecosystem in the Western Mediterranean: the Balearic Islands

Author(s): Sánchez-Zulueta P, Valls M, Guijarro B, Torres MA, Zapata MA, Coll M, Corrales Χ, Andonegi Ε, Dıaz-Valdes M, Massutı E, Ordines F
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1166674, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1166674

The potential effects of COVID-19 lockdown and the following restrictions on the status of eight target stocks in the Adriatic Sea

Author(s): Scarcella G, Angelini S, Armelloni EN, Costantini I, De Felice A, Guicciardi S, Leonori I, Masnadi F, Scanu M, Coro G
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 920974, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.920974

Scientific knowledge gaps on the biology of non-fish marine species across European Seas

Author(s): Abucay LR, Sorongon-Yap P, Kesner-Reyes K, Capuli EC, Reyes Jr RB, Daskalaki E, Ferrà Vega C, Scarcella G, Coro G, Ordines F, Sánchez P, Dakalov G, Klayn S, Celie L, Scotti M, Grémille D, Lambert C, Gal G, Palomares MLD, Dimarchopoulou D, Tsikliras AC
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1198137, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1198137

Modelling and assessing the ecosystem of the Aegean Sea, a major hub of the eastern Mediterranean at the intersection of Europe and Asia

Author(s): Keramidas I, Dimarchopoulou D, Tsikliras AC
Published in: Regional Studies in Marine Science, Issue 56, 2022, Page(s) 102704, ISSN 2352-4855
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2022.102704

Ecotrophic perspective in fisheries management: A review of Ecopath with Ecosim models in European marine ecosystems

Author(s): Keramidas I, Dimarchopoulou D, Ofir E, Scotti M, Tsikliras AC, Gal G
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1182921, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1182921

Impacts of human activities on the supply of marine ecosystem services: A conceptual model for offshore wind farms to aid quantitative assessments

Author(s): Van de Pol L, Van der Biest K, Taelman SE, De Luca Peña L, Everaert G, Hernandez S, Culhane F, Borja A, Heymans JJ, Van Hoey G, Vanaverbeke J, Meire P
Published in: Heliyon, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) e13589, ISSN 2405-8440
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13589

Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions

Author(s): Stock A, Murray CC, Gregr EJ, Steenbeek J, Woodburn E, Micheli F, Christensen V, Chan KMA
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 869, 2023, Page(s) 161719, ISSN 1879-1026
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161719

Evaluation of fisheries management policies in the alien species-rich Eastern Mediterranean under climate change

Author(s): Ofir E, Corrales X, Coll M, Heymans JJ, Goren M, Steenbeek J, Amitai Y, Shachar N, Gal G
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1155480, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1155480

Making Ecosystem Modeling Operational–A Novel Distributed Execution Framework to Systematically Explore Ecological Responses to Divergent Climate Trajectories

Author(s): Steenbeek J, Ortega P, Bernardello R, Christensen V, Coll M, Exarchou E, Fuster-Alonso A, Heneghan R, Julià Melis L, Pennino MG, Rivas D, Keenlyside N
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) e2023EF004295, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023ef004295

Ecological impacts of climate change on Arctic marine megafauna

Author(s): Grémillet, David; Descamps, Sébastien
Published in: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 773-783, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.002

Monitoring marine fishes using underwater video techniques in the Mediterranean Sea

Author(s): Nalmpanti M, Chrysafi A, Meeuwig JJ, Tsikliras AC
Published in: Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Issue 33, 2023, Page(s) 1291-1310, ISSN 0960-3166
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-023-09799-y

Using ecosystem models to inform ecosystem-based fisheries management in Europe: a review of the policy landscape and related stakeholder needs

Author(s): Rodriguez Perez A, Tsikliras AC, Gal G, Steenbeek JG, Falk-Andersson J, Heymans SJ
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1196329, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1196329

Data availability and participatory approach: the right mix for enhancing Mediterranean fisheries' sustainability

Author(s): Malvarosa L, Basilone G, Carbonara P, Carpentieri P, Cozzolino M, Follesa MC, Gambino M, Gancitano V, Duque DP, Pesci P, Scarcella G, Vielmini I
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1155762, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1155762

New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method

Author(s): Froese R, Winker H, Coro GP, Palomares MLD, Tsikliras AC, Dimarchopoulou D, Touloumis K, Demirel N, Vianna G, Scarcella G, Liang C, Pauly D
Published in: Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, Issue 53, 2023, Page(s) 173–189, ISSN 0137-1592
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Rolniczej
DOI: 10.3897/aiep.53.105910

An open science automatic workflow for multi-model speciesdistribution estimation

Author(s): Coro G, Sana L, Bove P
Published in: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2024, ISSN 2364-415X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1007/s41060-024-00517-w

Calibrating ecosystem models to support ecosystem-based management of marine systems

Author(s): Bentley JW, Chagaris D, Coll M, Heymans JJ, Serpetti N, Walters CJ, Christensen V
Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024, Page(s) fsad213, ISSN 1095-9289
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad213

An Open Science oriented Bayesian interpolation model for marine parameter observations

Author(s): Coro G
Published in: Environmental Modelling & Software, Issue 172, 2023, Page(s) 105901, ISSN 1364-8152
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105901

Exploitation and Conservation Status of the Thornback Ray (Raja clavata) in the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)

Author(s): Ferragut-Perello F, Ramírez-Amaro S, Tsikliras AC, Petit-Marty N, Dimarchopoulou D, Massutí E, Serrat A, Ordines F
Published in: Fishes, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 117, ISSN 2410-3888
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/fishes8020117

Satellite imagery in evaluating oil spill modelling scenarios for the Syrian oil spill crisis, summer 2021

Author(s): Keramea P, Kokkos N, Zodiatis G, Sylaios G, Coppini G, Peña J, Benjumeda P, Sepp Neves AA, Lardner R, Liubartseva S, Soloviev D, Scuro M, Nikolaidis A, Viola F
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 1264261, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1264261

Estimating hidden fishing activity hotspots from vessel transmitted data

Author(s): Coro G, Sana L, Ferrà C, Bove P, Scarcella G
Published in: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Issue 7, 2023, Page(s) 1152226, ISSN 2571-581X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1152226

Ecosystem-based fisheries management increases catch and carbon sequestration through recovery of exploited stocks: The western Baltic Sea case study

Author(s): Scotti M, Opitz S, MacNeil L, Kreutle A, Pusch C, Froese R
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 879998, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.879998

Book chapters (1)

Advances inspatial‐temporal coastal and marine ecosystem modeling using Ecospace

Author(s): deMutsert K, Coll M, Steenbeek J, Ainsworth C, Buszowski J, Chagaris D, Christensen V, Heymans SJJ, Lewis KA, Libralato S, Oldford G, Piroddi C, Romagnoni G, Serpetti N, Spence MA, Walters C
Published in: Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, 2024
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90798-9.00035-4