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COST-IMPACT

COST-IMPACT. Costing the impact of demersal fisheries on marine ecosystem processes and biodiversity. Co-ordinator: Dr Mel Austen – m.austen@pml.ac.uk Webpage: www.cost-impact.org

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COST-IMPACT

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  1. COST-IMPACT Costing the impact of demersal fisheries on marine ecosystem processes and biodiversity Co-ordinator: Dr Mel Austen – m.austen@pml.ac.uk Webpage: www.cost-impact.org Contract number: Q5S-2001-00993Start date: 01 December 2001End date: 31 November 2004Duration: 36 months

  2. Primary objectives to provide advice to decision makers on 1. How demersal fishing impacts the biodiversity of marine benthos and the associated goods and services that they provide 2. How these impacts influence other marine ecosystem processes 3. What the likely values of marine ecosystem goods and services are and how these values are affected by fishing

  3. COST-IMPACT PARTNERS • 1. Plymouth Marine Laboratory Dr Melanie Austen UK • 2. Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (EcoServe) Chris EmblowIreland • 3. The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) Dr Morten SchaanningNorway • 4. School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales-Bangor, UK (UWB) Dr Mike Kaiser UK • 5. Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC) Dr Chris Smith Greece • 6. University of Oslo, Department of Biology, Section of Marine Chemistry and Marine Zoology (UO) Dr Frode Olsgard Norway • 7. Fisheries Economics Division – Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) Dr Erik Buisman The Netherlands • 8. University of East Anglia (UEA) – The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Dr Rob Tinch UK • 9. PRIMER-E (PRIMER-E) Dr Bob ClarkeUK • 10. Sea Fisheries Institute (SFI) Dr Aleksander DrgasPoland • 11. University of Gdansk Institute of Oceanography, (UG) Dr Jerzy BolalekPoland

  4. EU Framework 5Cost-Impact: Costing the impact of demersal fishing on marine ecosystem processes and biodiversity Development of Decision Support System Types and amounts of demersal fishing Changes in value of system goods and services Changes in benthic biodiversity Changes in nutrient cycling Changes in PP and ecosystem processes (ERSEM)

  5. COST-IMPACT will help managers to integrate fishing policy with environment policy • By providing tools to help determine whether a balance can be achieved between the economic value of a fishery and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems and the economic value of the goods and services they provide • By enabling development of strategies to manage fisheries effort that will balance the environmental impact on marine benthic biodiversity and the services the benthos provides for marine ecosystem functioning against the socio-economic benefits of fishing

  6. WP1 Start up workshop COST-IMPACT - project structure WP6 Project management WP2 Data organisation WP8 Annual workshop WP3 Experiments on goods and services WP4 Ecological modelling WP5 Environmental economics WP9 Final workshop WP7 Dissemination

  7. WP 2 Data Organisation EcoServe, PML, UWB, IMBC, UO, PRIMER-E • Collate existing data on the effects of demersal fishing on benthic communities inhabiting marine soft sediments • Produce database of spatially referenced faunal information, upon which models and analyses may be based

  8. WP3 Experiments on goods and services provided by biodiversity PML, NIVA, IMBC, UO, PRIMER-E Carry out seasonal (winter and summer) mesocosm and field experiments to elucidate: • The relative contribution of large individual benthic organisms and the communities associated with them to nutrient cycling • The influence of large individuals and groups/patches of large benthic organisms on associated benthic biodiversity • The relationship between nutrient cycling capacity and biodiversity of benthic communities in areas subjected to different degrees of fishing • How these functions vary seasonally

  9. Mesocosm experiment to determine effects of biodiversity of bioturbating species on ecosystem functioning: nutrient exchange and maintenance of associated biodiversity

  10. Norway - Oslofjord ROV and Operators

  11. Control (untrawled) Trawled

  12. Number of holes/m2 Study area

  13. Core samples were collected in trawled and untrawled areas to determine nutrient flux over 3 weeks in mesocosm

  14. Aegean Sampling Sites Iraklion Bay

  15. Side scan and Video Acquisition Side camera Side scan

  16. Side scan & video

  17. Cost-Impact in the Aegean Nutrient Flux Bioturbation Effects

  18. WP 4 Ecological modelling of the effects of fishing on marine ecosystems IMBC, PML, UWB, UO, PRIMER-E Model effects of fishing on marine benthic communities and marine ecosystem processes: • Use field data collated in database (WP2) to determine the relationship between fishing effort and biodiversity of benthic communities • Hence construct empirically based predictive models of changes in benthic biodiversity likely to occur with changes in fishing effort in different European regions • Incorporate experimental data (WP3) into models to construct empirically based predictive models of changes in nutrient cycling likely to take place with changes in fishing effort in different European regions

  19. WP 4 Ecological modelling of the effects of fishing on marine ecosystems Model effects of fishing on marine benthic communities and marine ecosystem processes (continued): • Input predictions from models of the effects of fishing on nutrient cycling and benthic biodiversity into the European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model ERSEM • Hence construct predictions of changes in ecosystem processes (e.g. primary productivity) in response to changes in fishing effort for different European regions for which parameters are already set within ERSEM (e.g. southern North Sea, Aegean, Norwegian waters)

  20. Cost-Impact in the Aegean ERSEM Model Nutrient Flux Bioturbation Effects Ecological Modelling Existing Data Biological Existing Data Chemical Environmental Economics Existing Data Physical

  21. WP 5 Environmental Economics modelling UEA, PML, IMBC, LEI Model the costs/benefits of changes in fishing on the value of ecosystem services and natural capital: • Explore methods for economic valuation of fishery productivity and other ecosystem services • Build on the outputs of workpackages 2, 3 and 4 to • model effects of different fishing regimes on fishery productivity and other ecosystem services • calculate, where possible, the economic value of these effects • conduct a constrained cost benefit analysis of different fishing regimes • Develop a decision support tool for incorporating trade-offs between fishing effort and ecosystem services within management

  22. WP 7 Distribution and dissemination of information to user groups EcoServe, IMBC, UO, UEA • Distribute and disseminate information concerning the project to a wide range of interested parties and end users • Co-ordination of the Reference User group • All project participants and the Reference User group will attend two workshops additional to the Start up workshop. • Project results and progress will be disseminated via the project web site, electronic newsletters and a listserver discussion group

  23. Reference User Group (RUG) • comprises potential users of COST-IMPACT’s final outputs from both commercial and government sectors, (fisheries and aquaculture management, nature conservation) • advise on the relevance and user-friendliness of the research • advise on dissemination procedures to ensure that results from COST-IMPACT reach potential end users

  24. WP6 Project Management Coordinator Mel Austen PML (WP3, WP6) Steering Committee Mike Kendall PML (WP1) Chris Emblow ECOSERVE (WP2) Yannis Karakassis IMBC (WP4) Kerry Turner/Rob Finch CSERGE (WP5) Chris Smith IMBC (WP8) Mona McCrea ECOSERVE (WP9) Michel Kaiser UWB Morten Schaanning NIVA Frode Olsgard UOSLO Erik Buisman LEI-DLO Bob Clarke PRIMER-E

  25. WP1 Start up workshop M. Kendall PML WP2 Data organisation C. Emblow ECOSERVE (M. Kaiser UWB) WP3 Experiments on goods M. Austen PML (M. Schaanning NIVA) WP4 Modelling Y. Karakassis IMBC (K. Clarke PRIMER-E) WP5 Environmental economics K. Turner CSERGE (E. Buisman LEI-DLO) WP8 Annual workshop C. Smith IMBC WP6 Project management M.Austen PML (M.Kendall PML) WP7 Dissemination C.Emblow ECOSERVE (R.Tinch CSERGE) WP9 Final workshop M. McCrea ECOSERVE

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