Transferring FishMPABlue2 approach to sustainably manage Small Scale Fisheries in Mediterranean MPAs

Closed

FishMPABlue2 was a successful project: 11 pilot MPAs from 6 Med countries succeeded in testing 13 actual governance and management-related measures for improving socio-economic-environmental sustainability of the Small-Scale Fisheries within and around an MPA, and actual impacts of such testing were measured through 2 monitoring campaigns, carried out “before” and “after” the implementation of the management measures. Therefore “SSF Governance Toolkit” is not just a theoretical contribution but an operational manual, which describes the actual pros and limits of each measure and also provide a “feasibility degree” – in terms of time, human and financial resources - for each of them. Toolkit was already transferred during FishMPABlue2 to other 9 MPAs, that were also trained on the socio-economic-environmental monitoring techniques.Therefore, in the current project, transferring will be carried out mainly applying the same strategy, involving, as Associated partners, 11 new MPAs from 5 countries- and where all the PPs are actual trainers and coachers of the concerned domestic MPAs.At the end of the project there will be more than 30 Med MPAs applying same governance-related approach – i.e. a co-management-driven one – and similar management measures already tested and further fine-tuned. Last but not least, they will improve their monitoring capacities. This will constitute a solid “community” to advocate co-management-based SSF governance towards EC - DG MARE.

Medium