Measures to Mitigate Adverse Impacts of Fisheries Targeting Large Pelagics
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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME 2 FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Grant agreement for: Small Collaborative Project Annex I - “Description of Work” Project acronym: MADE Project full title: MITIGATING ADVERSE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF OPEN OCEAN FISHERIES Grant agreement no.: 210496 Date of preparation of Annex I (latest version): 18 December 2007 Date of approval of Annex I by Commission: Beneficiary Beneficiary name Beneficiary Country Date enter Date exit Number * short name project project* 1 (Coordinator) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD France 1 48 2 Seychelles Fishing Authority SFA Seychelles 1 48 3 Université libre de Belgique ULB Belgium 1 48 4 Fundacion AZTI AZTI Spain 1 48 5 Aquastudio AQUA Italy 1 48 6 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research HCMR Greece 1 48 7 Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco UFRPE Brazil 1 48 8 Université de La Réunion RUN France 1 48 9 Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de IFREMER France 1 48 la mer 10 Université de Montpellier 2 UM2 France 1 48 11 Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus FADG Italy 1 48 12 Centre of the University of the Azores IMAR-DOP Portugal 1 48 13 University of Patras UPAT Greece 1 48 1 Table of contents Part A........................................................................................................................3 A1 Overall budget breakdown for the project .....................................................4 A2 Project summary.........................................................................................5 A3 List of Beneficiaries .....................................................................................6 Part B........................................................................................................................7 B1. Concept and objectives, progress beyond state-of-the-art, S/T methodology and work plan .................................................................................................8 B1.1 Concept and project objectives ..............................................................8 B1.2 Progress beyond the state-of-the-art .................................................... 11 B1.3 S/T methodology and associated work plan........................................... 24 B1.3.1 Overall strategy and general description ......................................... 24 B1.3.2 Timing of work packages and their components .............................. 26 B1.3.3 Work package list/overview ........................................................... 27 B1.3.4 Deliverables list ............................................................................ 28 B1.3.5 Work package description.............................................................. 29 B.1.3.6 Efforts for the full duration of the project....................................... 47 B.1.3.7 List of milestones and planning of reviews ..................................... 49 B2 Implementation ........................................................................................ 51 B2.1 Management structure and procedures................................................. 51 B2.2 Beneficiaries ....................................................................................... 53 B2.3 Consortium as a whole ........................................................................ 66 B2.4 Resources to be committed.................................................................. 67 B3 Potential impact........................................................................................ 69 B3.1 Strategic impact.................................................................................. 69 B3.2 Plan for the use and dissemination of foreground .................................. 70 B4 Ethical issues............................................................................................ 71 B5 Consideration of gender aspects................................................................. 72 2 Part A 3 A1 Overall budget breakdown for the project Estimated eligible costs (whole duration of the project) Participant RTD / Demonstr Manageme Other (D) Total number in Innovation ation (B) nt (C) A+B+C+D this project Participant Total Requested EC 9 (A) short name receipts contribution 1 IRD 1407069 59995 61419 38467 1566950 0.00 775238 2 SFA 68718 1080 540 620 70958 0.00 50250 3 ULB 136800 0 4000 4000 144800 0.00 80600 4 Tecnalia-AZTI 443057 23968 6116 9840 482981 0.00 360233 5 AQUA 258213 0 5960 3628 267801 0.00 203248 6 HCMR 234440 0 4085 4085 242610 0.00 184000 7 UFRPE 313536 0 2000 2000 317536 0.00 163470 8 RUN 230200 8400 8400 2400 249400 0.00 187050 9 IFREMER 237518 18097 7971 7971 271556 0.00 196203 10 UM2 371800 8000 4000 4000 387800 0.00 223500 11 FADG 4320 0 2160 78320 84800 0.00 83720 12 IMAR-DOP 424384 0 20800 6080 451264 0.00 345168 13 UPAT 163840 0 1760 1760 167360 0.00 125520 TOTAL 4293895 119540 129211 163171 4705816 0.00 2978200 4 A2 Project summary A particular attention has been paid worldwide on longline fisheries as they catch considerable amount of by-catch (seabirds, turtles, sharks, etc.). Seabird and turtles by- catch mitigation methods have now been established in many fisheries worldwide, but similar efforts must be put to reduce by-catch of sharks. In the same ecosystems, another issue attracts the attention of international tuna commissions: the use of drifting fish aggregating devices (FADs). These FADs are responsible for major catches of juvenile tuna and non target pelagic species (sharks). Finally, the effects of thousands of FADs released regularly in the tropical oceans are unknown, and must be studied to estimate if they impact the biology of pelagic species. The European open ocean tropical and Mediterranean pelagic fishery (Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Greece) is one of the main sources of catch, income and employment for the European fishery, with interactions with many developing countries. The main objective of the project is to develop measures to mitigate adverse impacts of fisheries targeting large pelagic fish in the open ocean: purse seiners using FADs and longliners. Two main categories of mitigation measures will be studied: spatial management issues (e.g. closure areas) and technical solutions to reduce by-catch in these fisheries. The main concept of MADE is to follow a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, combining biological and technological studies with economical analyses in different sites (Indian and Atlantic oceans, Mediterranean Sea), with a particular effort to closely associate fishers from the beginning of this research. High-tech technology and novel approaches will be employed (electronic tagging, in situ and in vitro experiments, etc.), and a particular effort will be devoted to disseminate results to fishers, tuna commissions, EU DG Fisheries, and scientists. 5 A3 List of Beneficiaries Beneficiary Beneficiary name Beneficiary Country Date Date exit Number * short name enter project* project 1 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD France 1 48 (Coordinator) 2 Seychelles Fishing Authority SFA Seychelles 1 48 3 Université Libre de Belgique ULB Belgium 1 48 4 Fundacion AZTI AZTI Spain 1 48 5 Aquastudio AQUA Italy 1 48 6 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research HCMR Greece 1 48 7 Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco UFRPE Brazil 1 48 8 Université de La Réunion RUN France 1 48 9 Institut français de recherche pour IFREMER France 1 48 l’exploitation de la mer 10 Université de Montpellier 2 UM2 France 1 48 11 Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus FADG Italy 1 48 12 Centre of the University of the Azores IMAR-DOP Portugal 1 48 13 University of Patras UPAT Greece 1 48 6 Part B 7 B1. Concept and objectives, progress beyond state-of-the-art, S/T methodology and work plan B1.1 Concept and project objectives Context This last decade, as an increasing number of scientists, politicians, fishers and conservationists clamoured for action to be carried out to resolve the problem of by-catch and discard in fisheries, numerous workshops, symposia and international agreements have been held to explore solutions (Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles, IAC, http://www.seaturtle.org/iac/; Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, http://www.fao.org/fi/agreem/codecond/codbobp1.asp; the International Plan to Reduce Seabird Bycatch and the International Plan to Reduce Shark Bycatch of the FAO, http://www.fao.org/fi/site.asp). However, the reality is that, for fisheries catching large pelagic fish such as purse seiners using FADs and pelagic longliners, more investigations must be done to reduce by-catch and more generally, adverse impacts of these fisheries. A particular attention has been paid worldwide on pelagic longline fisheries, as they catch considerable amount of by-catch (seabirds, turtles, sharks, etc.). Seabird by-catch mitigation methods have now been established in many fisheries worldwide (Hall and Mainprize 2005), and several projects have been conducted to reduce the by-catch and mortality of turtles (Swimmer et al 2006), all protected species by international conventions. Synthesis of these past and current studies and their application must be done in order to integrate these outcomes, but similar research efforts must also be developed on the two other major longline by-catch groups that remain largely unaddressed by research and technological development: pelagic sharks and juvenile (undersized) swordfish. Sharks are long-lived, low fecundity, top predators. These characteristics reduce