Monitoring and elimination of bycatch of endangered and conserved species in the NE and high seas Atlantic region.

监测和消除东北部和公海大西洋地区濒危和保护物种的兼捕。

• 批准号: 10108866
• 金额: $ 19.42万
• 依托单位: CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE (CEFAS)
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10108866
• 关键词: Monitoring; elimination; bycatch; endangered; conserved

Bycatch, the unintentional capture of non-target marine animals during fishing, is considered one of the greatest threats to marine species globally. This threat is particularly significant for protected, endangered and threatened species (PETS), including marine mammals, seabirds, turtles and sensitive fish species, with their bycatch threatening marine ecosystem health. While bycatch of PETS is recognized as a significant issue, advances in fully understanding risks to PETS have been limited, due to current inability to effectively monitor wide ranging, highly mobile and cryptic species. There has been further lack in advancement in approaches to reduce such risks. These issues all hinder Member States ability to eliminate and significantly reduce bycatch. MarineBeacon will respond to these challenges, working across a regional seas scale to identifying where significant gaps in understanding lie, and adopt innovative approaches to produce the knowledge and tools to better understand bycatch risk and vulnerability. Next generation monitoring tools will be produced and developed to improve understanding of the distribution and abundance of PETS in addition to the levels in which they interact with fisheries. Cutting-edge mitigation tools and techniques will then be extensively tested across diverse fisheries and regions to ensure transferable outputs are generated to significantly mitigate against bycatch risk. MarineBeacon will facilitate the uptake and adoption of its targeted outputs by policy, management, and industry by adopting a stakeholder centered approach, engaging and collaborating with stakeholder throughout the project to producing best acceptable solutions. Importantly, MarineBeacon will ensure long-term applicability and impact of outputs beyond the lifetime of the project through the production of a suite of decision support tools to ensure all measures to better monitor PETS and mitigate against bycatch risk are effectively targeted.

副渔获物，即捕鱼过程中无意捕获的非目标海洋动物，被认为是全球海洋物种面临的最大威胁之一。这一威胁对受保护、濒危和受威胁物种，包括海洋哺乳动物、海鸟、海龟和敏感鱼种尤其严重，其副渔获物威胁着海洋生态系统的健康。虽然误捕的宠物被认为是一个重要的问题，在充分了解风险的宠物一直有限的进展，由于目前无法有效地监测范围广，高度移动的和神秘的物种。在减少这种风险的办法方面也缺乏进展。这些问题都妨碍会员国消除和大幅度减少兼捕的能力。MarineBeacon将应对这些挑战，在整个区域海洋范围内开展工作，以确定在理解方面存在的重大差距，并采用创新方法来产生知识和工具，以更好地了解混捕风险和脆弱性。将制作和开发下一代监测工具，以提高对PETS的分布和丰度以及它们与渔业相互作用的水平的了解。然后，将在不同的渔业和区域广泛测试最先进的减缓工具和技术，以确保产生可转移的产出，从而大大减缓兼捕风险。MarineBeacon将通过采取以利益相关者为中心的方法，在整个项目过程中与利益相关者接触和合作，以制定最佳可接受的解决方案，促进政策、管理层和行业吸收和采用其目标产出。重要的是，MarineBeacon将通过制作一套决策支持工具，确保项目生命周期以外产出的长期适用性和影响，以确保更好地监测PETS和减轻兼捕风险的所有措施都有针对性。