"Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Operational" - MEFEPO
Funding Year: 2007
Funding Scheme: Small-to-medium scale collaborative project
Project Duration: 36 months
Total Project Value: €4.1m
EU Grant-Aid: €2.99m
Grant-Aid to Ireland: €214,958
Lead Partner: Univeristy of Liverpool (UK)
Irish Partner(s):
Marine Institute, (FSS)
Project Summary
MEFEPO will focus on how best to make current institutional frameworks responsive to an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) management at regional and pan-European leels in accordance with the prrinciples of good governance. Thsi will involve stakeholder interaction and the integration of existing knwoledge in ecological, fisheries and social research to develop a decision making process which integrates a wide breadth of interests. MEFEPO will focus on three geogrphical areas and their respective REgional Advisory Committees (RACs): the North Sea AC, the North-Eestern Waters RAC and the South-Western RAC.