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Knowledge-Based Innovative Solutions to Enhance Adding-Value Mechanisms towards Healthy and Sustainable EU Fisheries (LIFE iSEAS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Background Discards refer to the practice of dumping overboard dead unwanted fish that are accidentally caught as by-catch during commercial fishing practices. Most conventional fishing operations produce discards (ranging from between 2 and 10% for long-line methods and increasing by as much as 90% for trawling systems). New measures within the Common Fi ...
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latform for improving maritime coastal pollution preparedness and response in Atlantic regions (ARCOPOLPLATFORM)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

ARCOPOLplatform aims to further improve maritime safety in the Atlantic area and reinforce the protection of the coastal regions from maritime pollution through the capitalization and upgrading of ARCOPOL and ARCOPOLplus outcomes. Specifically, ARCOPOLplatform will organise pilot actions addressing local authorities to support the implementation of Local Contingency Plans. Moreover, these plans wi ...
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Tecnologia Marítima e de Informação (0688_RAIA_TEC_1_P)

Start date: Aug 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Aumentar a disponibilidade e fiabilidade do equipamento destinado a monitorizar o clima marítimo e das suas estruturas de suporte. Facilitar o acesso do público aos dados e aumentar a densidade espacial e temporal dos mesmos. Facilitar e incrementar a capacidade de intervenção remota. ...
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GEPETO

Start date: May 31, 2012, End date: May 30, 2014,

Fisheries management through a platform of governance that associates professional, scientific sectors and NGOs. Channeled through the South Western and North Western Regional Advisory Councils, Gepeto combines stakeholders’ resources and capabilities to improve the bio-socio-economical sustainability of long term fisheries management plans in the AA. ...
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Improving maritime safety and pollution response through technology transfer, training & innovation (ARCOPOLPLUS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

...rties of priority HNS were compiled from bibliography, public databases (fig. 1) or obtained through mathematical models (EPA-EPI suit). Toxicity tests were performed with sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) larvae in 24-well plates (3 ml). Four replica were used for each HNS studied, a control (seawater) and a solvent control. Solvent was DMSO, and acetone in the sole case of hexane. The endpoint ...
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Establishing the scientific bases and technical procedures and standards to recover the European flat oyster production through strategies to tackle the main constraint, bonamiosis (OYSTERECOVER)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The European flat oyster, has been part of the human diet for many centuries. High mortality episodes and overfishing decimated the populations of O.edulis in Europe through the first half of the XXth century. Then, two diseases (due to Marteilia refringens and Bonamia ostreae) spread in the early 1970s and 1980s, drastically reducing the production. Despite new management practices, and intensive ...
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Integral networking of fishing actors to organize a responsible optimal and sustainable exploitation of marine resources (FAROS)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010, End date: Apr 14, 2013,

Background Fish discards and by-catch cause environmental and economic impacts and are a priority issue under EC fisheries and environmental policies. Reduction of discards and by-catch are serious challenges in European fisheries and the new Common Fisheries Policy calls for the progressive elimination of all discards, obliging the fishing industry to br ...
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Transferencia de herramientas para la Evaluación, Ordenación, Gestión y Educación Ambiental en Estuarios (0543_TEAM_MINO_1_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: Transferencia de herramientas para la implantación de la Directiva Marco del Agua en aguas de transición y costeras del NO de la Península Ibérica, con objeto de armonizar los planes hidrológicos de España y Portugal para las aguas internacionales del río Miño. ACCIONES: Clasificación del estado ecológico en los estuarios del Miño, Oitavén y Lima; intercalibración y validación de las co ...
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Observatorio Marino del Margen Ibérico y del Litoral (0520_RAIA_CO_1_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 9, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: Consolidar la oceanografía operacional en el margen ibérico y litoral de la Euroregión Norte de Portugal Galicia ACCIONES: Ampliación y mantenimiento de los servicios ofrecidos por el Observatorio Marino RAIA. Elaboración de productos específicos para usuarios finales que sean representativos de los sectores socio-económicos del litoral de la Euroregión Norte de Portugal Galicia. ...
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Integral management model of recovery and recycling of the proper solid waste from the fishing and port activities (3R-FISH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jan 1, 2012,

Background Fishing and port activities generate significant amounts of solid waste, which is often dumped directly into the marine environment. Where treated, this is often using inadequate generic treatments along with domestic waste. Three of the most environmentally damaging inorganic solid wastes are fishing nets, expanded polystyrene, and batteries/l ...
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ATLANTIC REGIONS' COASTAL POLLUTION, RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS (ARCOPOL)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

ARCOPOL aims to improve prevention, response and mitigation capabilities against oil, HNS (Convention on the Carriage of Noxious and Hazardous Substances by Sea) and inert spills and to establish the basis for a sustainable Atlantic network of experts. The main objectives are: 1) To incorporate outputs from EROCIPS (Interreg IIIB) into strategic national, regional and local response levels. ...
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Observatorio oceánico del margen ibérico  (0313_RAIA_1_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

Objetivo: Implementar una red de observación oceánica transfronteriza que permita consolidar la oceanografía operacional en el margen ibérico, que cree nuevas oportunidades científicas y tecnológicas que estimulen la economía del mar.Acciones: 1. Construir, completar y consolidar una infraestructura de observación oceánica transfronteriza. 2. Adaptar y validar modelos de oceanografía operacional q ...
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Green Atlantic for Sustainable Development (GASD)

Start date: Oct 31, 2006, End date: Jun 29, 2008,

“Green Atlantic for Sustainable Development” is both a process of integration and development of competences and methods aimed at creating a European platform of expertise and action for maritime and environmental safety issues. “GASD” will integrate past and current work and use this as a basis for working on environmental issues and making recommendations, from a broader perspective (economic, h ...
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Emergency Response to Coastal Oil, Chemical and Inert Pollution from Shipping (EROCIPS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2004, End date: Mar 9, 2008,

The EROCIPS project aims to provide an opportune answer to accidents of oil, chemical and inert pollution of coastal areas. Its aim is to formulate a transferable methodology to supply relevant information to the stakeholders and the decision-makers committed to fighting coastal pollution after an accident. To achieve this objective, it is organising eight workshops whose actions can be summed up ...
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System for the integral management of the wastes produced by the mussel cultured in rafts and longlines (GESTINMER)

Start date: Oct 15, 2004, End date: Oct 15, 2007,

Background The farming of cultured mussels is a vital activity in the western Spanish coastal areas. Galicia (the project location) produces around 290,000 tons of mussels per year (94% of Spanish production and 50% of world production) mainly using rafts – a farming method whereby the mussels are grown on ropes, attached to the rafts. Mussels have a ...
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Analysis penetration of ITC and promotion of e-commerce within the SME's belonging to the aquaculture strategic sector of the Atlantic area (e-AQUA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2003, End date: Apr 29, 2005,

The project is intended to strengthen and promote the aquaculture sector through use of new information/communication technologies and e-business. There are three steps to the project: ·Establish a research centre on IT use in the aquaculture sector. ·Establish a training and information scheme for small and medium enterprises in the sector. ·Perform feasibility studies on implementing an e-commer ...
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