Fisheries in the AdriatIc Region – a Shared Ecosystem Approach
The central focus of the FAIRSEA project was to enhance the conditions for implementing innovative approaches for the sustainable management of the Adriatic Sea fisheries. This was achieved also thanks to the exchange of knowledge and the sharing of good practices among partners and beyond. The main result of the Project was the development of an integrated platform for a quantitative ecosystem approach to fisheries that goes across territorial boundaries and across several disciplines. It integrates biological/ecological processes (i.e. considering water mass circulation, physical-chemical properties, plankton productivity, dynamics of resources including their interactions) and fisheries bio-economic dynamics (including fisheries displacement). This high technological and innovative platform can be used as a planning tool to implement demonstrative testing of applicable fisheries policies both at local (subareas) and whole Adriatic scales. It provides scientific basis for formulating and evaluating the shared management advice in the local and international participatory processes, involving management authorities, experts and stakeholders. The Project also provided an answer to the need of reference points, best practices and guidelines for the optimisation between ecological and socio-economical sustainability of fisheries in the Adriatic Sea.
MEDAC benefited from the scientific knowledge produced by FAIRSEA in terms of data analysis and ecosystem modelling, contributing with the practical knowledge coming from the professional fishery sector. MEDAC brought to the project its experiences in participatory processes and stakeholder involvement. Moreover MEDAC facilitated link of the project with NGOs, organizations, fisheries association and other stakeholders that are part of MEDAC and organized the stakeholder meetings.
FAIRSEA is financed by Interreg V-A IT-HR CBC Programme (Priority Axis 1 – Blue innovation).
Official Facebook page of FAIRSEA project: https://www.facebook.com/FAIRSEA-1072085839651014/
For more information on the two stakeholders meeting, please download all the available documentation:
FAIRSEA First stakeholder meeting 21 february 2019
FAIRSEA Second stakeholder meeting 23-24 February 2021