Objective In 2006, the UN General Assembly Resolution (61/105) called upon fisheries management organisations worldwide to: i) assess the impact of bottom fishing on vulnerable marine ecosystems, ii) identify/map vulnerable ecosystems through improved scientific research/data collection, and iii) close such areas to bottom fishing unless conservation and management measures were established to prevent their degradation. In European deep waters, in addition, there is now a need to establish monitoring tools to evaluate the effectiveness of closed areas for the conservation of biodiversity and fish and their impact on fisheries. Currently the tools necessary to achieve these management goals are wholly lacking. CoralFISH aims to support the implementation of an ecosystem-based management approach in the deep-sea by studying the interaction between cold-water coral habitat, fish and fisheries. CoralFISH brings together a unique consortium of deep-sea fisheries biologists, ecosystem researchers/modellers, economists and a fishing industry SME, who will collaborate to collect data from key European marine eco-regions. CoralFISH will: i) develop essential methodologies and indicators for baseline and subsequent monitoring of closed areas, ii) integrate fish into coral ecosystem models to better understand coral fish-carrying capacity, iii) evaluate the distribution of deepwater bottom fishing effort to identify areas of potential interaction and impact upon coral habitat, iv) use genetic fingerprinting to assess the potential erosion of genetic fitness of corals due to long-term exposure to fishing impacts, v) construct bio-economic models to assess management effects on corals and fisheries to provide policy options, and vi) produce as a key output, habitat suitability maps both regionally and for OSPAR Region V to identify areas likely to contain vulnerable habitat. The latter will provide the EU with the tools to address the issues raised by the UNGA resolution. Fields of science agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheriesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems Keywords Deep-sea MPA monitoring coral ecosystem-based-management fish fisheries predictive-modelling Programme(s) FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) Topic(s) ENV.2007.2.2.1.3. - Habitat-marine species interactions in view of ecosystem based management in the deep-sea Call for proposal FP7-ENV-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY EU contribution € 600 323,21 Address UNIVERSITY ROAD H91 Galway Ireland See on map Region Ireland Northern and Western West Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jacinta Thornton (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (17) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET Norway EU contribution € 779 665,00 Address NORDNESGATEN 50 5817 Bergen See on map Region Norge Vestlandet Vestland Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Anne Skarstein (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HAFRANNSOKNASTOFNUNIN Iceland EU contribution € 522 499,60 Address Skulagata 4 121 REYKJAVIK See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Vignir Thoroddsen (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER France EU contribution € 767 250,00 Address 1625 ROUTE DE SAINTE ANNE ZONE INDUSTRIELLE DE LA POINTE DU DIABLE 29280 Plouzane See on map Region Bretagne Bretagne Finistère Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Philippe Moal (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IMAR - INSTITUTO DO MAR Portugal EU contribution € 452 930,40 Address RUA PROF DR FREDERICO MACHADO 4 DEPARTAMENTO DE OCEANOGRAFIA E PESCAS UNIV DOS ACORES 9901-862 Horta See on map Region Região Autónoma dos Açores Região Autónoma dos Açores Região Autónoma dos Açores Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ricardo Serrão Santos (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH Greece EU contribution € 288 300,00 Address LEOFOROS ATHENS SOUNIO 46 7KM 19013 Attikia Anavissos See on map Region Αττική Aττική Ανατολική Αττική Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Stylianos Kastrinakis (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE SCIENZE DEL MARE ASSOCIAZIONE Italy EU contribution € 362 600,00 Address PIAZZALE FLAMINIO 9 00196 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Maddalena Laggini (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW Netherlands EU contribution € 233 799,60 Address KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS 1011 JV AMSTERDAM See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Erwin A Van De Ridder (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology United Kingdom EU contribution € 432 688,80 Address Regent's Park NW1 4RY London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Charles Biggie (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET Norway EU contribution € 291 450,00 Address HANSINE HANSENS VEG 14 9019 Tromso See on map Region Norge Nord-Norge Troms og Finnmark Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Terje Wiik (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN United Kingdom EU contribution € 466 489,00 Address KING'S COLLEGE REGENT WALK AB24 3FX ABERDEEN See on map Region Scotland North Eastern Scotland Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Frederick Stevenson-Robb (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STICHTING KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ZEEONDERZOEK (NIOZ) Netherlands EU contribution € 471 996,00 Address Landsdiep 4 1797 SZ DEN HOORN TEXEL See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Pieter Honkoop (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data O'MALLEY FISHERIES Ireland EU contribution € 202 700,00 Address Bushypark GALWAY See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Patrick O'malley (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG Participation ended Germany EU contribution € 102 833,26 Address SCHLOSSPLATZ 4 91054 Erlangen See on map Region Bayern Mittelfranken Erlangen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ulrich Winderl (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK Ireland EU contribution € 219 528,00 Address WESTERN ROAD T12 YN60 Cork See on map Region Ireland Southern South-East Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gerry Sutton (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET BREMEN Germany EU contribution € 133 500,00 Address Bibliothekstrasse 1 28359 Bremen See on map Region Bremen Bremen Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Inna Huber (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AARHUS UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 53 943,00 Address NORDRE RINGGADE 1 8000 Aarhus C See on map Region Danmark Midtjylland Østjylland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Camilla Mikkelsen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SENCKENBERG GESELLSCHAFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG Germany EU contribution € 117 409,94 Address SENCKENBERGANLAGE 25 60325 Frankfurt See on map Region Hessen Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Other Administrative Contact Johannes Heilmann (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data