Objective
"The MSY concept was included as a principle in the 2009 Green Paper on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in accordance with the global imperative to manage fish stocks according to the maximum sustainable yield (MSY). This implies a commitment to direct management of fish stocks towards achieving MSY by 2015. Attaining this goal is complicated by the lack of common agreement on the interpretation of ""sustainability"" and ""yield"" and by the effects that achieving MSY for one stock may have on other stocks and broader ecosystem, economic, or social aspects. MYFISH will provide definitions of MSY variants which maximize other measures of “yield” than biomass and which account for the fact that single species rarely exist in isolation. Further, MYFISH will redefine the term “sustainable” to signify that Good Environmental Status (MSFD) is achieved and economically and socially unacceptable situations are avoided, all with acceptable levels of risk. In short, MYFISH aims at integrating the MSY concept with the overarching principals of the CFP: the precautionary and the ecosystem approach. MYFISH will achieve this objective through addressing fisheries in all RAC areas and integrating stakeholders (the fishing industry, NGOs and managers) throughout the project. Existing ecosystem and fisheries models will be modified to perform maximization of stakeholder approved yield measures while ensuring acceptable impact levels on ecosystem, economic and social aspects. Implementation plans are proposed and social aspects addressed through active involvement of stakeholders. Finally, effects of changes in environment, economy and society on MSY variants are considered, aiming at procedures rendering the MSY approach robust to such changes. The expertise of 26 partners from relevant disciplines including fisheries, ecosystem, economic and social science are involved in all aspects of the project. Global experience is engaged from North America and the South Pacific."
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2011-5
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Coordinator
2800 Kgs Lyngby
Denmark
Participants (30)
H91 R673 Galway
SW1P 3JR London
6708 PB Wageningen
24118 Kiel
38116 Braunschweig
48395 Sukarrieta
19013 Attikia Anavissos
PL1 3DH Plymouth
1165 Kobenhavn
5817 Bergen
81-332 Gdynia
9220 Aalborg
SW7 2AZ London
20148 Hamburg
29280 Plouzane
28002 Madrid
1049 Brussels
26532 Astorp
KY16 9AJ St Andrews
7491 Trondheim
8 Dublin
36310 Vigo Pontevedra
BT7 1NN Belfast
44230 Saint Sebastien Sur Loire
Killybegs
27472 Cuxhaven
2583 DH Den Haag
8321 PH Urk
3253 EG Ouddorp Zh
7700 Thisted