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Spatio-temporal distribution of fishing effort and biological resources in the Northern Adriatic Sea: towards the identification of fish habitats and management proposals in the framework of a participatory approach |
The aim of the project is to incorporate data provided by fishermen (either from fishing activities and Traditional Ecological Knowledge), scientific observers on board, trawl surveys and from literature and oceanographic models, in order to: - identify and map fishing grounds, define fishing effort exerted in these areas, define catches and discards composition integrating fishery dependent and fishery-independent data sources; - define target/non-target species spatial temporal distribution (including spawning and nursery grounds of most exploited species and thus identify the essential fish habitat of main target species – e.g. common sole, cuttlefish, scallops); -assess the spatial and temporal distribution of commercial species in relation to different environmental variables. The information will be available either to fishermen and fishery managers, and will facilitate the enforcement of a spatially explicit management in the framework of an ecosystem approach.Aim
Stakeholder Participants
Regional Advisory Council