Objective
The objectives of Policies Priority 8.1.B.1.3 Task 12 are: a) To develop new gears/fishing techniques that have a lower impact on benthic habitats, b) To quantify the potential reduction of the physical impact as well as the negative effects on benthic communities, c) To weigh the socio-economic consequences of these changes against those of alternative management measures, e.g. closing of areas. Eleven participants propose to work together to develop new gears/fishing techniques that have a lower impact on benthic habitats, to quantify the potential reduction of the physical impact as well as the negative effects on benthic communities, to weigh the socio-economic consequences of these changes against those of alternative management measures, e.g. closing of areas. They will do so by focusing on the development of modified towed gears. A generic approach is chosen in which cases (e.g. North Sea, Mediterranian) can be worked out. The overall ecological impact to benthic systems will be assessed by developing physical/biological models verified by tests at sea. This will provide a tool to fisheries managers to identify gear and sediment type combinations which will minimise impact to the habitat. A group of experts will work to appraise the socio-economic consequences of the new gears and techniques. Gear types under study involve: otter trawls, beam trawls and dredges. The project will consist of six work packages, as follows: WP 1 Management and co-ordination WP 2 Modelling and quantification of benthic impact WP 3 Otter trawl modifications WP 4 Beam trawl and Dredge modifications WP 5 Economics WP 6 Dissemination and implementation The duration of the project will be 38 months. Special emphasis will be given to consultation with and dissemination of the results of the work to the fishing industry through national Industrial Liaison Groups and an adequate implementation of alternative fishing gears and techniques.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- social sciences economics and business economics
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- natural sciences biological sciences zoology invertebrate zoology
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FP6-2004-SSP-4
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9101 WAGENINGEN
Netherlands
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