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The research activities are part of European programs (FWP5, Mast III, LIFE, DG-XIV), national programs (FCT, PRAXIS, PDCTM), regional programs (PRADIC) and bilateral co-operation with the USA (FLAD, NASA, NSF and CoML). LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS IN COURSE, STARTED AND/OR APROVED IN 2001 European funding FIEFA - Providing a Framework to Improve the Assessment of the Main Demersal and Pelagic Fisheries in Western European Waters EU Study Contract 97-0059 The main objectives of this project are to implement a well designed and integrated international sampling, data management and data analysis scheme for the most important commercially exploited stocks in ICES Sub-areas VI, VII, VIII, IX and X, with a view to improving the quality of data available for stock assessment and management. The proposal will build on the progress achieved in EU Study Contract 94-0013 (Improvements of data collection for stock assessment in ICES Sub-areas VI, VII, VIII, IX and X). The project will enable the partners and the EU, plan for the next phase of the CFP in 2002 by improving the fisheries database in the member countries so that, the quality of data, the ability to exchange data and the ability to consider fisheries rather than individual stocks will be enhanced. BASBLACK - Environment and biology of deep-water species Aphanopus carbo in the NE Atlantic: basis for its management. EC DG-XIV Study Project 97/0084 The objective of this project will be to provide the basis for the development and implementation of a programme for the routine study and management of the black scabbardfish. Owing to the lack of biological and environmental information critical for the assessment and management of the species a special effort will be put into investigations of its biology, stock discrimination and habitat characterization. MARÉ - Integrated Management of Coastal and Marine Areas in the Azores EU – LIFE DG XI/ B4-3200-98-509. The Azores archipelago consists of 9 islands and 20 islets located on the Mid- Atlantic Ridge. Despite this geographical isolation, the marine environment has been affected by increasing human activity. As a consequence of the ecological deterioration during the last two decades, various isolated legislative measures 4
have been taken for the conservation of marine species and habitats. However, they generally resulted in absence of management of the activities that take place in the protected areas and/or deficient enforcement of the legislation. With the recent application of the EC "Birds" and "Habitats" Directives in the Archipelago, conservation benefited from a new strategic perspective by the designation of 18 Sites with Conservation Importance (SCIs) and 13 Special Protection Areas (SPAs) on coastal and marine habitats. With a view to prevent what has happened with previous scattered measures, it is becoming urgent to implement an integrated program of management planning and an enforcement of the measures taken. The success of these strategies will depend on the integration in terms of ecology and management of the different components of the littoral environment. Instead of advancing with isolated actions of a group or a particular species, the present project proposes to elaborate and implement management plans for a complex of areas and species that are already favoured by decrees of unconnected protection. Three different levels of approach will be integrated: littoral habitats, marine bird populations and populations of cetaceans and marine turtles. This project will follow a course of action that includes scientific inventory, elaboration of regulation plans, public inquiry, preparation of management plans and finally the implementation of specific management measures. In the course of these actions one will establish an earnest program of environmental education with the perspective of alerting the different sectors of society and their active involvement in management measures. Only through this strategy will it be possible to create favourable conditions to implement successfully the Network Natura 2000 in the Azores with an impact beyond the project. Concerning coastal (both littoral and sublittoral) habitats, 5 SCIs were chosen, inserted in different ecological and socio-economical contexts. The island of Corvo, especially, should represent an illustrative example for the development of the general objectives of the project. Being the smallest island of the archipelago, Corvo exhibits a well-preserved coastal environment and contains a small population, receptive to proposals on environmental conservation. Therefore, it seems to unite all conditions for a sustainable management plan. On the other hand, SCIs located on the channel between Faial and Pico islands are subject to strong pressure from tourism, fishing and urban activities. Consequently, the management needed has to be of a different type, involving a greater variety of socio-economic sectors. Finally, the islets of Formigas and the Dollabarat reef represent the setting for a third management model. At present they are subject to growing human disturbance, like demersal fishery and spearfishing, but the area has the potential to be made into an authentic oceanic sanctuary. Another goal for this project is the elaboration of management plans for the new SPAs, which will be designated during a review process underway, along with enhancement of conservation action in 7 existing SPAs towards the recovery of population levels of Sterna dougallii. Besides, genetic studies will be undertaken to confirm reproductive isolation between two sympatric and temporally segregated populations of Oceanodroma castro occurring in the Azores. The 5
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