Project description
Reducing by-catch of endangered marine species
Bycatch refers to the accidental capture of non-target marine animals during fishing, posing a significant threat to marine species worldwide. This threat is particularly severe for protected, endangered, and threatened species (PETS). However, there has been limited progress in fully understanding the risks to PETS, and there is a need for further advancement in approaches to reduce these risks. These challenges impede Member States from significantly reducing bycatch. The EU-funded Marine Beacon project aims to diminish by-catch risk in the Atlantic by identifying knowledge gaps and adopting innovative approaches to develop next-generation monitoring and mitigation tools. The project will engage stakeholders to generate the best solutions and decision-support tools for long-term impact.
Objective
Bycatch, the unintentional capture of non-target marine animals during fishing, is considered one of the greatest threats to marine species globally. This threat is particularly significant for protected, endangered and threatened species (PETS), including marine mammals, seabirds, turtles and sensitive fish species, with their bycatch threatening marine ecosystem health. While bycatch of PETS is recognized as a significant issue, advances in fully understanding risks to PETS have been limited, due to current inability to effectively monitor wide ranging, highly mobile and cryptic species. There has been further lack in advancement in approaches to reduce such risks. These issues all hinder Member States ability to eliminate and significantly reduce bycatch. MarineBeacon will respond to these challenges, working across a regional seas scale to identifying where significant gaps in understanding lie, and adopt innovative approaches to produce the knowledge and tools to better understand bycatch risk and vulnerability. Next generation monitoring tools will be produced and developed to improve understanding of the distribution and abundance of PETS in addition to the levels in which they interact with fisheries. Cutting-edge mitigation tools and techniques will then be extensively tested across diverse fisheries and regions to ensure transferable outputs are generated to significantly mitigate against bycatch risk. MarineBeacon will facilitate the uptake and adoption of its targeted outputs by policy, management, and industry by adopting a stakeholder centered approach, engaging and collaborating with stakeholder throughout the project to producing best acceptable solutions. Importantly, MarineBeacon will ensure long-term applicability and impact of outputs beyond the lifetime of the project through the production of a suite of decision support tools to ensure all measures to better monitor PETS and mitigate against bycatch risk are effectively targeted.
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Participants (19)
D08H67X Dublin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
48395 Sukarrieta
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220 Hafnarfjörður
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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29280 Plouzane
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F92 FC93 Letterkenny
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9820 Merelbeke
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T12 YN60 Cork
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17031 La Rochelle
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28006 Madrid
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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1556 KOBENHAVN V
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
9900095 HORTA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
69100 Villeurbanne
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
9501 801 PONTA DELGADA S MIGUEL ACORES
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9901-862 Horta
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33608 PESSAC
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56270 Ploemeur
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3900 NUUK
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
SW1P 4DF LONDON
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