AMPHORE: the role of marine conservation areas in managing fish stocks
THEME 4: MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES - FISHING AND FISH FARMING
Aires Marines Protégées (AMP – Marine Conservation Areas) fulfil an essential role in safeguarding biodiversity. The question of what their role might be in managing fisheries is now being asked by AMPHORE – “AMP et gestion Halieutique par Optimisation des Ressources et des Ecosystèmes” (MCAs and Fisheries Management through Optimisation of Resources and Ecosystems).
The project partners, under the management of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Institute for Economic Development Research), will define the biological, ecological, economic and social indicators relating to fisheries management in two French estuaries in la Vilaine and la Gironde and six African estuaries in Guinea, Gambia and Senegal. The modelling of these indicators based on multiple criteria will be complemented by a study of the economic effects of establishing four nature reserves in France and Africa. AMPHORE will pave the way for advances in the methods used to set up and manage Marine Conservation Areas in order to ensure that they play as full a role as possible at an environmental, economic and social level and become genuine ICM tools at a national and international level.
Jointly recognised by the Pôle Mer Bretagne and the Pôle PACA,
AMPHORE has secured funding from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) as one of the projects approved under its Biodiversity 2007 Programme.
The project partners, under the management of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Institute for Economic Development Research), will define the biological, ecological, economic and social indicators relating to fisheries management in two French estuaries in la Vilaine and la Gironde and six African estuaries in Guinea, Gambia and Senegal. The modelling of these indicators based on multiple criteria will be complemented by a study of the economic effects of establishing four nature reserves in France and Africa. AMPHORE will pave the way for advances in the methods used to set up and manage Marine Conservation Areas in order to ensure that they play as full a role as possible at an environmental, economic and social level and become genuine ICM tools at a national and international level.
Jointly recognised by the Pôle Mer Bretagne and the Pôle PACA,
AMPHORE has secured funding from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency) as one of the projects approved under its Biodiversity 2007 Programme.
AMPHORE PROJECT PARTNERS:
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD – Institute for Research into Economic Development) – “Adaptive responses in fish” Research Unit in Brest, project director,
- ECOLAG Lab (Lagoon ecosystems) at the University of Montpellier,
- IFREMER, Nantes, “Ecology and models for the fishing industry”,
- CEMAGREF, Cestas (33), “Estuarine ecosystems and amphihalin migratory fish” Lab,
- Agrocampus Rennes, fishing ecology lab,
- Centre d'Economie et d'Ethique pour l'Environnement et le Développement (Centre for Economics and Ethics relating to Environment and Development, a mixed research unit working in partnership with IRD),
- Centre de Droit et d’Economie de la Mer (Centre for Maritime Law and Economy, AMURE Research Unit, UBO-IFREMER), Brest,
- ECOMERS Lab, part of the science faculty at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
- Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission, Dakar, Senegal, an intergovernmental organisation on fisheries cooperation bringing together Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone,
- Boussoura National Centre of Fisheries Science, Conakry, Republic of Guinea,
- Dakar Thiaroye Centre for Oceanographic Research,
- Mauritanian Institute for Oceanographic and Fisheries Research, Nouadhibou, Mauritania,
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - Institute for Research into Economic Development), Brest, ACAPELLA Lab.
Contact: Raymond.Lae@ird.fr
