Nearly EUR 8 million (USD 9.3 million) has been awarded by the European Union to the EcoScope consortium to promote an effective and efficient ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management in the region’s waters.
The new four-year project addresses ecosystem degradation and anthropogenic impacts that cause fisheries to be unsustainably exploited in European seas. EcoScope will develop several tools – which will include an interoperable platform, a decision-making toolbox, and online courses “to promote efficient, holistic, sustainable, ecocentric fisheries management.”
According to EcoScope Project Coordinator Athanassios C. Tsikliras, EcoScope applies novel assessment methods for data-poor fisheries and marine ecosystems, along with sophisticated ecosystem models, which will be used to examine and develop fisheries management and marine policy scenarios and maritime spatial planning simulations.
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