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project MAREMED

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Framework:

MED Programme 2007-2013

Title:

Maritime Regions Cooperation for Mediterranean

Acronym:

MAREMED

Duration:

2012-2013

Budget:

€ 7'000

 Website: http://www.maremed.eu/

Summary:

In September 2007, the European Parliament carried out a workshop on RBM in fisheries, aimed at outlining further developments of the CFP legal framework. Systems based on Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) tools were especially debated. When designing an ITQ system however, it should be considered that many EU fisheries are mixed fisheries, and this is particularly true in the Mediterranean. Fisheries management systems based on transferable concessions/quotas and similar rights-based systems have been developed during the last decades in a number of European countries (especially in Northern Europe). However, at present there is not a clear view on the effects caused by the application of this management systems, and controversial results have been achieved in many cases. According to the results of this pilot action, the Transferable Fishing Concession (TFC) concept may fit well with fisheries regimes characterised by industrial, monospecific and single-gear fishing, but the transferability potential of a TFC-based system to the Mediterranean context appears to be extremely low due to the characteristics of the Mediterranean fisheries, which is mainly characterised by artisanal small-scale fishing vessels, where each vessel usually catches a wide variety of species using several different fishing gears and systems, with high spatial and seasonal variability. Therefore, the results of this pilot action have shown that a fisheries management model based on a TFC system is in general not appropriate and recommended for the Mediterranean context.

 
Contact people in ISMAR: Alessandro Lucchetti, Massimo Virgili.

Partnership: 
  • Marche Region, Italy
  • CNR, Italy
  • Regional Development Agency SVIM, Italy
  • Fano Marine Biology Laboratory of the University of Bologna, Italy
  • Environment Office of Corsica Region Marine Ecosystems Department, France
  • STARESO-Station de Recherches Sous-marines et Oceanographiques, France
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