IDEM - Implementation of the MSFD to the DEep Mediterranean Sea
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Contexte
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), adopted in June 2008, commits Member States to adopt an ecosystemic approach to manage the marine environment. By this directive, member states aim to achieve good environmental status (GES), described by 11 descriptors, of its marine waters by 2020. This includes deep-sea waters within the European Union Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and embraces, as defined by the MSFD, the water column and the seabed and subsoil under the water column. Presently, the implementation of the MSFD fails in capturing such a huge dimension, and is mostly focused on coastal habitats and those reached by commercial fishing activities, like bottom trawling, a technique that is banned in the Mediterranean Sea below 1000 m and hopefully soon below 800 m after the EU agreed to the terms a ban in 2016. Monitoring, assessing its environmental status and managing the deep sea through the implementation of knowledge on ecosystems’ biodiversity, functions and services is crucial actions to ensure the long-term sustainability of neighboring coastal zones and their resources, which rely on the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems.
Objectifs
The project IDEM (Implementation of the MSFD to the DEep Mediterranean Sea) aims to support the next phase of MSFD implementation, in particular to achieve, by the end of the project, a regionally coherent, coordinated and consistent initial environmental assessment and determination of GES, as well as the definition of sets of environmental targets for the Mediterranean deep Sea (below 200 m of depth). Beside this, IDEM aims at understanding, quantifying and mapping drivers, anthropogenic pressures and impacts, current knowledge and spatial coverage of data regarding the MSDF indicators in the Mediterranean deep sea. Overall, IDEM will provide also crucial information for the conservation and management of the deep Mediterranean sea, contributing to the action and initiatives for the identification of Special Areas of Conservation and the design of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) networks (e.g. Joint Management Action of the European Community with the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan).
In the sextant catalogue, a compilation of distribution maps of indicator species of vulnerable marine ecosystèmes in French waters were provided as well as abrasion maps resulting from bottom contacting fishey gears in the same area.
Partenaires
The IDEM consortium is composed by 9 partners: Università Politecnia delle Marche (coordinator, UNIVPM, Italy), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, Italy), Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), Department of Fisheries and Marine Research - Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (DFMR, Cyprus), Agenzia Nazionale Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA, Italy), Institut Français de Research pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER, France), Tel Aviv University (TAU, Israel), Universitat de Barcelona (UB, Spain) and University of Malta (UM, Malta).
Plus d'informations
Contact(s) : sandrine.vaz@ifremer.fr
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