SHELLFISH · Marine Invertebrate Small-Scale Fisheries in Timor-Leste: Monitoring, Management and Sustainability
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-02-01 → 2025-01-31
- EU contribution
- €264,259
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Marine Invertebrate Small-Scale Fisheries in Timor-Leste: Monitoring, Management and Sustainability
Marine Invertebrate Artisanal Fisheries (MIAF) target species such as molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms, generally grouped as “shellfish.” Women play a key role in these fisheries and have expert skills and knowledge of the ecological and social processes underlying shellfisheries in their territories. Today, despite the fact that MIAF play a key role by providing food and nutrition security and a source of income at household, national, and global scales, these fisheries remain a frequently overlooked and historically underinvested area of fisheries research. The overall objective of SHELLFISH is to reach a detailed understanding of the multiple social and ecological processes underlying and shaping MIAF in TL and to develop inclusive tools and strategies for their long-term accountability and sustainability. The project is divided into three specific objectives and three cross-cutting themes: - Objective 1: Design and implement inclusive protocols to assess the diversity, extent, and dynamics of MIAF (WP1) - Objective 2: Identify the key ecological and social drivers of change, vulnerability, and sustainability of MIAF (WP2) - Objective 3: Enhance gender and marine invertebrate issues in fisheries management plans and policy(WP3) Cross-cutting issues: Gender equality, climate change, and local knowledge. Research approach: Transdisciplinary, human rights-based, inclusive, and holistic
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Project objective
Marine invertebrate Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) contribute to food security, nutrition and to national and global economies and growth. Despite their societal and ecological importance and vulnerability to rapid coastal changes, these fisheries remain frequently overlooked in fisheries research, lack of management plans and are marginalized in policy-making processes. Moreover, the role of women, actively involved in these fisheries, is not reflected in fisheries statistics and census data. There is an urgent need for a global perspective in the management of marine invertebrate SSF combined with local assessments and monitoring that integrate fisher’s perceptions,views and knowledge. SHELLFISH aims to understand the multiple social and ecological processes underlying and shaping marine invertebrate SSF, while developing inclusive tools and strategies for their long-term accountability and sustainability. To achieve these goals, the present project will undertake transdisciplinary research in a small, insular country that will display “magnifying glass” effect to the entire process: from theory to applied science to the influence of policy-making processes. SHELLFISH will link anthropological, ecological and fisheries approaches to (i) assess the diversity, extent and dynamics of marine invertebrate SSF, and (ii) identify ecological and social drivers of change, vulnerability and sustainability. Parallelly, the firmly entrenched political position of the host institution in the third country, and a series of wisely planned outreach activities will facilitate the incorporation of research outcomes into policy and governance actions. The project results will create stronger links between knowledge production and societal transformation, and will be of particular interest, including in Europe, where ecological, socio-cultural, economic and political factors are key to explain the vulnerability, resilience, intersectoral and gendered opportunities of the SSF sector.
Original text from CORDIS.
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Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/101026000
- https://www.ird.fr/ariadna-burgos-laureate-de-la-bourse-individuelle-marie-sklodowska-curie-global-fellowship
Data: CORDIS, © European Union