TENDERS - ACOUSMED project
Programme: EC - Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
Project Title: Harmonisation of the acoustic data in the Mediterranean 2002-2006
Acronym: Acousmed
Duration: 2010-2012
Total Budget : € 323.000
Web site: http://acousmed.wikispaces.com
Summary:
AcousMed is a project that aims at the “Harmonisation of the acoustic data in the Mediterranean 2002-2006”. Acoustic surveys have been conducted by Member states of EU on a regular basis in several Mediterranean geographical subdivisions (i.e. Iberian Coast, Gulf of Lions, Adriatic Sea, Sicily Strait and Aegean Sea ) during the last decades. In particular, the western part of the Adriatic Sea has been acoustically surveyed by ISMAR since 1976. All these acoustic surveys operated under a common target which was the estimation of the population abundance of small pelagic fish as well as their spatial distribution per respective surveyed area. Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus) were the main target species for all surveys. However these surveys have not been internationally coordinated and data have been analysed and presented not exactly in the same ways. Therefore, this project has specific targets aiming to assure the optimization of the design of these acoustic surveys held in the five different geographical areas, promote the compatibility of the acoustic estimations among these areas as well as the compatibility of old and new acoustic data within each area.
Contact person in ISMAR: iole.leonori@ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - HCMR - Greece
- Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer - IFREMER - France
- CNR - ISMAR - Italy
- CNR - IAMC - Italy
- Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia IEO - Spain
