Project
Making regional cooperation more efficient
Strengthening regional cooperation in the area of fisheries data collection
All neighbouring European Member States along the North Sea and North Atlantic are collecting biological data in the fisheries sector. In order to strengthen cooperation in fisheries sampling, we develop scenarios for sensible planning and conduction of biological data collection within these regions, based on case studies.
Background and Objective
The EU Member States are inter alia obliged to sample commercial fisheries within the European fishing regions via the Data Collection Framework (DCF), see project description. All neighbouring countries have to set up and conduct their own programmes for data collection. In doing so, it has to be ensured that biological sampling in harbours and onboard fishing vessels is regionally coordinated and statistically sound.
The aim of our project is to show how data collection tasks can be regionally shared in a better way, using typical fisheries for the regions North Sea and North Atlantic, and we are going to recommend corresponding options for action to the European Commission.
Target Group
Science & Politics
Approach
- Production of a regional data set
- Development of scenarios for collaboration based on case studies
- Recommendation of options for strengthening regional cooperation
Our Research Questions
- How should an efficient regional task-sharing in data collection in fisheries harbours and onboard fishing vessels look like?
- How can the data quality of regional data sets be jointly analysed and improved?
Results
see Final Report
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
Involved external Thünen-Partners
- Marine Scotland Science (MSS)
(Montrose, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland)) - Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
(Wageningen, Niederlande) - Danish Technical University (DTU)
(Kopenhagen, Hirtshals, Charlottenlund, Dänemark) - Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER)
(Brest, LHoumeau, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Nantes, Frankreich) - CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science)
(Lowestoft, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland)) -
Swedish University of Agricultural Science - SLU
(Uppsala, Lysekil, Schweden) - (Flanders Research) Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, (ILVO)
(Oostende, Belgien) -
Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)
(Lissabon, Portugal) -
Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia (IEO)
(Madrid, Spanien) - Internationaler Rat für Meeresforschung (ICES)
(Kopenhagen, Dänemark) - AZTI-Tecnalia (Marine and Food Technological Centre. The Marine Research Division) / Fundación AZTI
(Bilbao, Sukarrieta, Spanien)
Funding Body
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European Union (EU)
(international, öffentlich)
Duration
4.2015 - 4.2016
More Information
Project funding number: MARE/2014/19
Project status:
finished