Recursos Marinos y Pesquerías

Fismare en La Voz de Galicia

10/03/09 ,

En sección de ciencia y mercado de  la edición del 9 de Marzo de 2009 de La Voz de Galicia aparece un reportaje acerca de la spin-off del grupo FISMARE S.L: Sostenibilidad e Innovación.

La versión impresa en pdf se puede descargar aquí.

A continuación teneis el artículo completo:

Fismare, unha nova ollada para o sector pesqueiro

«Xurdimos como unha mestura de oportunidade e de necesidade», anticipa Juan Freire cando se lle pregunta por Fismare, unha spin-off forxada no seo do Grupo de Recursos Mariños e Pesqueiras da Universidade da Coruña. Hai tres anos viron que os seus traballos de investigación derivaban en proxectos que non eran estritamente académicos, en desenvolvementos que se podían replicar, en realizar, xa que logo, un traballo áxil de I+D afastado do que Freire, coordinador do grupo, entende como «a estrutura en moitas ocasións lenta e burocrática da Universidade». E naceu Fismare, unha empresa de base tecnolóxica que ofrece servizos relacionados coa xestión do medio costeiro e os recursos mariños. A oportunidade era o valor engadido que podían ofrecer: unha nova mirada para o sector. A necesidade gardaba relación coa posibilidade de ofrecer unha saída laboral a doutorandos que non tiñan un futuro claro. Por iso tres profesores da UDC, entre eles Freire, involucraron a cinco mozos. «Dous deles aínda están facendo o doutoramento, pero queriamos incentivalos, que fosen socios e non simples traballadores», puntualiza.

Baixo esa idea e unha planificación empresarial prudente que refugou a opción do capital risco, Fismare atopou o seu oco. Agora está a piques de incorporar catro novos traballadores, pero tamén atravesou por momentos de incerteza financeira. Os seus promotores non buscan diñeiro fácil e rápido senón emprego e proxectos de calado que acheguen coñecemento en ambos os sentidos, deses nos que se traballa un ano «e cóbrase ao final», matiza Freire. Hai vocación de investigar, pero tamén de desenvolver solucións prácticas para, por exemplo, sentar as bases da formación de reservas mariñas nas nosas costas, uns espazos protexidos para recuperar e conservar as especies e o hábitat. Así, traballaron no proxecto para pór en marcha a dos Miñarzos, na costa de Lira. Alí realizaron un seguimento polo miúdo dos ecosistemas, as capturas ou as áreas de pesca. Agora fan o propio en Cedeira. «Estamos a organizar a información, que se pesca, onde, o estado dos recursos, a diversidade do ecosistema?», explican. Tamén o fan en Aguiño onde están nunha fase máis embrionaria.

Outros servizos que ofrece Fismare configúranse como solucións de amplo percorrido nun futuro próximo. É o caso da consultaría en comercialización de produtos pesqueiros onde ilustran aos pescadores sobre as vantaxes de saltarse intermediarios na relación co comprador ou a certificación de pesqueiras. «No norte de Europa teñen importancia porque os consumidores apréciano, aquí estamos traballando en xerar a información para que se poida certificar a navalla da ría de Pontevedra ou o marisqueo de bivalvos de Abanqueiro, preto de Bueu», detalla Freire. Son labores nas que atoparon a colaboración de grupos de investigación da Universidade de Vigo, no primeiro caso, ou doutro dun grupo de enxeñeiros da Universidade da Coruña porque Fismare teñen unha filosofía colaborativa da que fan bandeira e que Freire xustifica: «A oferta de servizos de xestión ambiental está moi atomizada. Nós somos competimos nese mercado, pero cremos máis na colaboración para afrontar proxectos».

Fuente: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/canales/cienciagalega/2009/03/09/00031236602121821645289.htm

GAP1 Newsletter February 2009

10/03/09 ,

Se ha publicado el boletín de noticias del proyecto europeo GAP1: Bridging the gap between science and stakeholders correspondiente al mes de Febrero del 2009.

Se puede descargar en pdf aquí, o consultarlo a continuación:

GAP1 Newsletter February 2009

How can the German Crangon crangon fishery of Wadden Sea respond to climate change? Interview with Kai Wätjen, Biologist, AWI, Bremen, Germany

Brown shrimp or common shrimp, Crangon crangon is a common German fishery with a long tradition. In Germany the Wadden Sea fishery is a small scale fishery including around 230 vessels with about 2 or maximum 3 people in each boat. Local observations by fishermen indicate that there are impacts of climate change on the fish and decapod fauna in the Wadden area. The research of this GAP1 Case study group will investigate how climate affects the local fauna and try to suggest how the changes can be handled. Management plans currently also include the consideration of a certification of the fisheries with the MSC, Marine Stewardship Council.

“Due to sea level rise and temperature increase, the unique Wadden Sea and its residents, who live from the fishing industry, are facing a great challenge.”, Kai Wätjen says. Wätjen is a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute with a small cooperative of 7 boats as stakeholder partner. He regards his case study collaboration with one of their shrimp fishers to be running smoothly. The research questions developed by the group cover global change and response on climate change.
Read full interview
New Results
Proposals are currently being submitted to the workpackage leader from
the GAP1 Case study groups, deadline February 28 2009. Proposals will
be reviewed and discussed during GAP1 Workshop 2 in Norwich May 5th-8
2009.
Rikke Jacobsen of IFM is out and about, visiting case studies in the
UK, Malta and Sweden. Rikke will be talking with scientists and
stakeholders from the case studies to help learn about their
experiences of the collaborations initiated in GAP1, and whether they
met their needs and expectations. The messages learnt will be
discussed at the second workshop, contribute to a code of conduct for
initiating participatory research and help in future plans.

Meetings
On 5th February 2009, GAP1 representatives met in Brussels to discuss
‘Engaging Stakeholders in Fisheries and Marine Research’ with the
European Commission and stakeholder representatives. Participants
shared their experiences and views on two main topics:

• How a deeper and more systematic engagement of civil society stakeholders can be enabled through European research activities
• Funding strategies and instruments needed to enable participation in research

The full report will be available in March. The pre-meeting briefing
will be available at: http://www.gap1.eu/Results/Reports.htm

Planned GAP1 events

• January 27 2009 – Press release Good Practice Guide
• May 5th-8th 2009 – Gap1 Workshop 2, a GAP1 conference and workshop will take place in Norwich UK, Press are welcome. Further details to be distributed in our newsletter: http://www.gap1.eu/News/News.htm
• July 9-11 2009 – MARE: People and the Sea V, Amsterdam. Important conference for GAP1 dissemination to the scientific community, GAP1 exhibition.
• Fall 2009 – GAP1 Press event Code of conduct

Please review event list for suggestions on other events, contributions are welcome!

Web updates
Event list: http://www.gap1.eu/News/News.htm#Events

Case studies page:
UK; Devon Crab fisheries, Germany; Wadden Sea Shrimp fishery
http://www.gap1.eu/Case_Studies/Case_Studies.htm
Regional meetings new uploads:
Denmark; Herring study
http://www.gap1.eu/Case_Studies/Regionalmeet.htm
Gap1 Monthly Newsletter:
http://www.gap1.eu/News/News.htm
Scientific news update:
http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html

EU Parliamentary news updates:
http://www.theparliament.com
http://europa.eu/pol/rd/

Wishing all readers a happy early spring!

Contacts

Steve Mackinson Project Coordinator: steve.mackinson@cefas.co.uk

Charlotta Järnmark Communications officer: cjarnmark@gmail.com

The GAP project is co-funded by national governments and the EU under the Framework 7 research programme (Science in Society, Co-operative Research Processes). Project number 217639.

ASLO Aquatic Science meeting (23-30 January 2009)

15/02/09 ,

La ultima semana de enero (del 23 al 30) tuvo lugar el ASLO Aquatic Science meeting en Niza (Francia).  Un miembro del grupo, Maria Jose Juan Jorda, presentó un trabajo donde se cuantifica como responden los escombridos a la explotación pesquera usando modelos jerárquicos. Este proyecto se desarrolla dentro del marco del proyecto METAOCEANS . Os dejamos aquí la versión pdf de la charla.

Abstract (get talk in pdf)

Since the 1950s Scombrids have been subject to large removals of biomass in their populations. The impacts of fisheries on tuna species have been a hot debate in the last few years giving rise to widely different views on the present status of large predatory tunas. This family is comprised of 48 species distributed throughout the world oceans which have developed diverse life history strategies and therefore can be expected to respond differently to fisheries exploitation. This study characterizes and quantifies the responses of Scombridae species to fishing exploitation on a global scale. We have attempted to compile all fisheries data sets worldwide, including catches, size composition and biomass estimates. Biomass trends and changes in size structure were estimated using both traditional and Bayesian hierarchical models. These methods combine different sources of information and consider the hierarchical nature of the data. The understanding of how “data rich” species respond to exploitation can help with a priory predictions of responses of related stocks with similar life history traits and lacking the proper data to be well managed.

Groundfish species associations with distinct oceanographic habitats in the Northern California Current

15/02/09 ,

Juan-Jorda, MJ, Barth, JA, Clarke, ME and Wakefield, WW, 2009. Groundfish species associations with distinct oceanographic habitats in the Northern California Current. Fisheries Oceanography, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00489.x

get pdf

MARIA JOSE JUAN-JORDA 1*, JOHN A. BARTH 1, M. E. CLARKE2 AND W. W. WAKEFIELD3

1College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 COAS Admin Bldg, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503, USA

2National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Blvd. East, Seattle, WA 98112-2097, USA

3National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2032 SE OSU Drive Newport, OR 97365, USA

*Present address: M. J. Juan-Jorda´, Recursos Marinos y Pesquer?as, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de A Coruna, Alejandro de la Sota 1, 15008, A Corun˜ a, Spain

ABSTRACT

Ecosystem-based management places a strong emphasis on habitat, but little work has been done to examine how water column properties may influence the distribution, abundances and structure of groundfish assemblages. We identified and described oceanographic habitats in the northern California Current based on temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a and the inherent variability in these factors. We then examined the distribution and the abundance of groundfishes in relation to these oceanographic habitats and conditions with the long-term goal of improving science for ecosystem-based management of the groundfish fishery of the west coast of the USA. Five summertime oceanographic habitats with distinct physical and biological characteristics were identified in the northeast Pacific Ocean off the northwest Coast of the USA: Offshore Habitat, Upwelling Habitat,majority of the associations were weak due to overlap of species distributions in the nearshore oceanographic habitats. In contrast, groundfish species showed strong associations with individual oceanographic factors, primarily depth, surface chlorophyll-a, and bottom salinity and temperature. In addition, latitudinal variations in upwelling intensity, river discharge and productivity led to the identification of three regions where high chlorophyll-a concentrations were associated with large abundances of specific groundfish species. The combined oceanographic datasets and data products that we produced have the potential to be a powerful tool for improving our knowledge of the west coast ecosystem.

First GAP1 Newsletter.

23/12/08 ,

Se acaba de publicar el primer boletín del proyecto europeo GAP1: Bridging the gap between science and stakeholders, en el que participamos y sobre el que escribimos ya anteriormente. Puede descargarse en versión pdf o consultarse a continuación:

GAP1 Newsletter December 2008

New Results

Good practice guide:

WP2 has released their first deliverable, D1: Mackinson, S., Neville, S., Raicevich, S., and Worsøe Clausen, L. (eds) 2008. Good practice guide to participatory research between fisheries stakeholders and scientists. GAP project deliverable 1, 23pp. Download: http://www.gap1.eu/Results/Results.htm#GPG

A summary brochure of Good Practice Guide is available for distribution: “Good Practice Guide: Participatory Research in Fisheries Science”. http://www.gap1.eu/Downloads/good_brochure_web.pdf

Hotlist of Do’s and Don’t’s:

http://www.gap1.eu/Results/Results.htm#Hotlistç

Planned GAP1 events

• January 2009. Press release Good Practice Guide
• May 5th-8th 2009. Gap1 Workshop 2, Norwich UK
• Spring 2009. GAP1 Conference participation presenting project
• Fall 2009. GAP1 Press event Code of conduct

Please review event list for suggestions on other events, contributions are welcome!

Meetings

In September GAP partners attended a conference in the EU Parliament on renovating the CFP to improve communication between Fishermen and Scientists. Some important issues were related to improved data collection involving industry. This implies we are on good track with our GAP2 development. Report under: http://www.gap1.eu/Results/Reports.htm

Web updates

Event list: http://www.gap1.eu/News/News.htm#Events

Newest Event item is People and the Sea:

http://www.gap1.eu/News/News.htm#Jul09

The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) at the University of Amsterdam announces its fifth biennial conference, People and the Sea V: living with uncertainty and adapting to change’. The conference will take place from July 9?11, 2009, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://www.marecentre.nl/people_and_the_sea_5/callforpapers.html

Case studies page is updated with Abstracts. Interviews are underway.

http://www.gap1.eu/Case_Studies/Case_Studies.htm

Regional meeting contributions so far:

http://www.gap1.eu/Case_Studies/Regionalmeet.htm

Scientific news update:

http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html

EU Parliamentary news updates:

http://www.theparliament.com

http://europa.eu/pol/rd/

Wishing all readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Contacts

Steve Mackinson Project Coordinator: steve.mackinson@cefas.co.uk

Charlotta Järnmark Communications officer: cjarnmark@gmail.com

The GAP project is co-funded by national governments and the EU under the Framework 7 research programme (Science in Society, Co-operative Research Processes). Project number 217639.

Proyecto GAP1: Good practice guide to participatory research between fisheries stakeholders and scientists

16/12/08 ,

Nuestro grupo de investigación participa en el proyecto GAP1: Bridging the gap between science and stakeholders liderado por el CEFAS y en el que se integra un consorcio de 16 socios científicos y 15 organizaciones de pescadores. En nuestro caso, además, lideramos uno de los workpackages (Knowledge and perspectives). Este proyecto h sido financiado por el Programa Ciencia y Sociedad del 7º Programa Marco de la Unión Europea:

GAP1 is phase 1 of a three-phase programme that aims to explore the complementary nature of alternative knowledge, investigate how to combine it in ways that will enhance understanding and management of natural resources. It paves the way for stakeholders to become actively involved in the delivery of scientific information.

Together, the stakeholder and scientist participants in GAP1 will initiate cooperative research by making plans to combine knowledge in future participatory research. They will engage through a series of European and regional workshops.

Tied to knowledge, GAP1 is an evidence-based approach that uses participation as the vehicle to improving understanding on fisheries research and management issues of common concern to stakeholders, scientists and policy makers. This is a pre-requisite for fostering the mutual respect essential for successful future collaboration.

El proyecto acaba de publicar sus primeros resultados en forma de una guía de buenas prácticas para la investigación participativa en que se integren pescadores y científicos. Este informe es el resultado de un taller celebrado en Julio en Londres donde los diferentes socios aportamos nuestras experiencias en este tipo de investigación y analizamos sus aspectos metodológicos. Esta es la referencia y el archivo del documnto final para descarga:

Mackinson, S., Neville, S., Raicevich, S., and Worsøe Clausen, L. (eds) 2008. Good practice guide to participatory research between fisheries stakeholders and scientists.  GAP project deliverable 1, 23p. (pdf).

Estam guía aparecerá en breve publicada en papel y se editará también una versión resumida. A lo largo de 2009 se irán publicado otros resultados del proyecto y, entre otros, un portfolio de casos de estudio que estamos compilando dentro del workpackage que coordinamos.

Proyectos