Monthly Meetings, Electronic Logbooks Coming

Electronic logbooks for the collection of fishery and oceanographic data from fishing vessels will be installed on some fishing vessels by the beginning of the next year (2012). On board scientific observers will contribute to monitor fishing activities, mapping fishing grounds/effort and defining catches and discard composition.

We agreed that monthly meetings with fishermen will be carried out since they proved to be a valuable forum for exchange of ideas and debate, as well as to jointly develop the GAP2 activities. A priority issue agreed with fishery sector was to define the critical issues and possible solutions shared by stakeholders and scientists. To that end, a document in which the state of the art of fishery in the Northern Adriatic Sea is described will be prepared by the end of 2011. This will be discussed in a conference planned for 2012.

Until now only fishermen and fishermens’ stakeholders joined these meetings. For the future meetings we anticipate involvement of more stakeholders (WWF-Italy and later on policy-makers) such as NGOs, actors from civil society organizations, etc. This will involve building strong agreement between ISPRA and local fishermen organizations that are not currently integrated in the GAP2 project. A meeting with the Veneto Region Fishery Office will be carried out in October 2011, where WWF will participate. The next meeting, scheduled for the 19th September 2011, UNIMAR will describe their duties and the activities that they will carry out throughout the project.

Interview protocols will be revised at the end of September 2011, taking advantage from some WP4 activities.

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