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Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
Co-ordination of European Marine Fisheries Research
Programmes
An ERA-NET supported by the 6th Framework Programme
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
What is an ERA?
ERA stands for European Research Area. The ERA concept was launched as a major strategic goal for Europe by European heads of state and governments at the Lisbon Council in March 2000. Part of an overall agenda to make Europe the “most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based society in the world”, the aim of the ERA is to improve the co-ordination and coherence of European research.
What is an ERA-NET?
An EU funded initiative aimed at encouraging the co-operation and co-ordination of national research activities through networking of research programme managers. ERA-NETs involve the funders of research, not research institutes.
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
Aim of MariFishMariFish brings together the major European national funders of marine fisheries research into an effective, working partnership in order to:
Exchange details on national research programmes and identify areas of common interest, gaps and duplication.Improve practices in the planning and procurement of research through shared knowledge.Link with and influence existing coordination and collaborative systemsEncourage coordination of research activities in key subject areasIdentify and facilitate joint funding of a strategic, forward-looking research programme. Annual spend by the 19 partners on fisheries related R&D amounts to approximately €190m. MariFish Budget is €3m and is a 5 year project
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The contribution MariFish will make to the co-ordination of marine fisheries research
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The contribution MariFish will make to the co-ordination of marine fisheries research
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MariFish ERA-NET
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
MariFish Partners1. UK – Department for the Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Marine and Fisheries Directorate
2. Norway – The Research Council of Norway (RCN)
3. Germany – Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (vTI)
4. Netherlands – Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Policy Department of Fisheries (LNV)
5. Sweden – Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas)
6. Iceland – The Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)
7. France – French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER)
8. Denmark – Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Directorate for Food, Fisheries and Agri Business (DFFAB)
9. Portugal – Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries (MADRP)
10. Poland – Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia (MIR)
11. Cyprus – The Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus (RPF)
12. Greece – Ministry of Development – General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
13. Ireland – Marine Institute (MI)14. Belgium – Institute for Agricultural and
Fisheries Research (ILVO) 15. Scotland – Scottish Executive, Fisheries
Research Services (FRS), UK16. Spain – Ministry of Education and Science
(MEC)17. Poland – Ministry of Science and Higher
Education (MSHE)18. Portugal – National Marine and Fisheries
Research Institute (IPIMAR)19. Poland – National Center for Research and
Development (MNSiW)
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
Focus
To help MariFish achieve its many challenging goals, the following statement of overall purpose has been adopted by the partners:
“MariFish will focus on that research which provides evidence to managers for the development of strategies for sustainable fisheries, including links with aquaculture, set within the ecosystem based principle.”
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
Management
WP1 Network development, management and coordination
WP2 Establish best practice for identifying, commissioning, and managing fisheries research programmes
Identification Analysis Implementation
WP3 Identify existing regional,
European and international collaboration
WP5 National research programme
analysis
WP7 Prepare and commission shared
research programmes
WP4 Coordination and linkages between
fisheries and socio-economic research,
and other disciplines
WP6 Analysis of special research topics and regional sea areas
that warrant special programme co-
ordination
WP8 Ten year Forward Look to identify and
jointly fund a strategic programme of fisheries
research
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
MARIFISH (Era-Net) Programme – Sequencing of Activity Work Packages
Jul-10
Implement communications strategy (T1.5)
Jan-07 Jul-09 Jan-10Jul-07 Jan-08 Jul-08 Jan-09
ID Socio economic research (T4.1)
MariFish Web-site
Fisheries Mgmt Drivers (T1.4a)
Fisheries Research Priorities (T1.46)
Maintain and update MariFish web-site (T1.3)
Consortium Agmt. (T1.7)
Current collaboration & coord (T3.1)
ID related discipline (T4.3)
Jul-06Jan-06
ID research linkages
Interface with Commission (T1.4)WP1
Comms Strategy (T1.5)
Data and info gathering (T2.1)
Best practice guidelines (T2.2)WP2
WP3
WP4
DevelopPortal (T5.5)
Establish home-page (T5.1)
Develop a matrix (T5.2)
Analyse national research (T5.3) Sth & Weakness Analysis (T5.4)
WP5
Info on coord (T6.2)
Research on pilots (T6.3)
ID probs (T6.1)
WP6
Pilot Implementation (T7.5) Pilots (T7.1)
ID pilots (T7.2) & consider pilots (T7.3)
Pilots (T7.6)
WP7
Preparations for jointly funded progs (T8.1, T8.2, T8.3, T8.4, T8.5)
First pilot call for jointly funded strategic research (T8.6, 8.7, 8.10)
Second call for jointly funded strategic research (T8.8, 8.9, 8.11)
WP8
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Implementation
Adopt a practical, direct approach to increasing co-operation and co-ordination by developing jointly managed research programmes in up to five key areas. (WP7)
Undertake a ten year forward-look exercise to identify strategic and innovative requirements for fisheries research and develop jointly funded programmes to address these. (WP8)
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
Rationale for developing collaborative projects – WP7:
• The 19 MariFish partners currently spend 190 million Euros annually on fisheries science
• They share similar challenges
• There are overlaps and similarities between nationally funded projects
• They are significant advantages to achieving greater collaboration of existing projects
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Selection of collaborative projects under WP7
• The WP7 leader, IFREMER, has already selected a fast track pilot project, the regionally focused project in the Channel.
• At the Athens meeting in February, partners identified four further topics that would be of interest for collaboration.
• The process involved an analysis of currently funded research and mapping of future priorities against the current projects.
• Partners were asked to identify high priority topics and the results were summarised down to 4 themes.
• The 4 WP7 core leaders selected a theme to lead on.
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Summary of partner interest in candidate project areas
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Reduction of by-catch and discards
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Influence of climate on fish biology and population dynamics
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Managing fisheries within an ecosystem
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Habitat mapping X X XX X X X FR
Mediterranean area X X X X GR
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MEDITTERANEAN SEACHANNEL
Partners : BELGIUM, U.K. FRANCE, and THE NETHERLANDS
MoU has now been signed by all four. Project duration is 4 years which is longer than Marifish life
Partners : GREECE, FRANCE, SPAIN
Elaboration of the MoU is underway
Geographical area :
Strengthening the links between European marine fisheries science and fisheries management
In conclusion… MariFish
•Considers there are significant advantages to achieving greater collaboration of existing projects, and aims to establish 5 collaborative programmes
•Is aiming to jointly fund one or more projects selected through a joint call (WP8)
•Collaboratively funded project (WP8) will only represent approximately 1% of the partners funds so we hope to achieve a large degree of collaboration through WP7.