EcoScope - Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems (DTA.AD002.668)
Thematic area
Earth system science and environmental technologies
Project area
Gestione sostenibile ed efficiente delle risorse naturali, degli ecosistemi e della biodiversità (DTA.AD002)Structure responsible for the research project
Istituto per le Risorse Biologiche e le Biotecnologie Marine (IRBIM)
Other structures collaborating in the research project
Project manager
GIUSEPPE SCARCELLA
Phone number: 0712078819
Email: giuseppe.scarcella@cnr.it
Abstract
The EcoScope project will develop an interoperable platform and a robust decision-making toolbox, available through a single public portal, to promote an efficient, ecosystem-based fisheries management. It will be guided by policy makers and scientific advisory bodies, and address ecosystem degradation and the anthropogenic impact that are causing fisheries to be unsustainably exploited across European Seas. The EcoScope Platform will organise and homogenise climatic, oceanographic, biogeochemical, biological and fisheries datasets for European Seas to a common standard type and format that will be available through interactive mapping layers. The EcoScope Toolbox, a scoring system based on assessments of all ecosystem components, ecosystem and economic models, will operate as a decision-support tool for examining fisheries management and marine policy scenarios and spatial planning simulations.
Goals
The EcoScope project has been created to address ecosystem degradation, anthropogenic impacts and unsustainable fisheries in line with the H2020 BG-10-2020 work programme topic "Fisheries in the full ecosystem context". The overall objective of EcoScope is to co-design and develop an efficient, holistic, ecosystem-based approach to sustainable fisheries management that can be easily used by policy makers and advisory bodies. This will be achieved through a platform that will organise and homogenise large fisheries and other relevant datasets in common standard type and format, and a toolbox. The toolbox will incorporate available (existing and new) assessment tools and methods and ecosystem models, which will be used to support integrated ecocentric management commensurate with safeguarding economic viability, within the policies and directives of the EU.
Start date of activity
01/09/2021
Keywords
Fisheries science, Ecosystem-Based Approach, Marine ecosystem management
Last update: 19/04/2024