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Project overview

marEEchange pursues the following overall scientific aims:

  1. Explore how to attribute causal responsibility for a regime shift to actors (fishers, anglers, administration, fishery managers) and circumstances (in particular climate change).
  2. Study reorganisation after a regime shift in real time for the Western Baltic sea, and assess how the period of reorganisation may open a window of opportunity for a change into a regime of sustainability.
  3. Propose pathways into a sustainable future for the Western Baltic sea, and contribute to implementing in transdisiciplinary collaboration with key actors from the commercial and recreational fisheries, as well as  from administration and the wider society.

 

marEEchange aims to study the Western Baltic sea as a ‘time machine’ into the future. The drastic changes that are expected for marine and coastal ecological-economic systems around the globe, driven by climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures, have been experienced here earlier than elsewhere, due to the particular ecological and socio-economic situation.

marEEchange aims at a close, transdisciplinary collaboration with the stake- and knowledge holders who have been directly affected by the regime shift to understand (a) how they attribute responsibility to actors, and (b) what would constitute, from their points of view, a regime of sustainability. We hypothesize that demographic change, with an increasing number of fishers reaching retirement age, and change towards a more part-time commercial fishery, with a fuzzy distinction vis-a-vis the recreational fishery with multiple target species, an almost complete abandoning of industrial fishing, and increasing regionalization of fisheries-related value chains, can be critical elements in a transition towards a sustainable Western Baltic.

Granting agency: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Project duration: 2023–2025


Work packages (WP)

WP 1: Engagement, Management & Outreach
WP 2: Reorganization after a regime shift
WP 3: Sustainability pathways for marine ecological-economic systems
WP 4: Engagement, management & outreach

Contact

Dr Hans Sloterdijk

Coordinator
Phone:
Email: hans.sloterdijk@idiv.de
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Consortium

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The consortium of marEEchange is characterised by its experience in investigating aquatic resource management questions related to the topic of the call in its ecological, economic and social context. The consortium is strongly interdisciplinary and complementary in its expertise comprising nationally and internationally leading scientists in the field of resource- and sustainability economics, marine ecology and fisheries management, social-ecological interactions in fisheries and stakeholder involvement and communication.

Members of the consortium


Research output

Fabio Grati, Kieran Hyder, Estanis Murgerza, Robert Arlinghaus, Jerome Baudrier, Brigid Bell, Luca Bolognini, Annica I De Groote, Hugo Diogo, Kevin Haase, Pablo Pita, Warren Potts, Zachary Radford, Amelie Regimbart, Martina Scanu, Christian Skov, Didzis Ustups, Thomas Verleye, Jon Helge Vølstad, Marc Simon Weltersbach, Harry V Strehlow, Effective governance of marine recreational fisheries in Europe is needed to maximize the societal benefits of its fisheries, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024;, fsae169, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae169

Dr. Dieter Koemle, Dr. Sean Pascoe, Dr. Marc Simon Weltersbach, Dr. Birgit Gassler, and Dr. Robert Arlinghaus. How quota cuts, recreational fishing, and predator conservation can shape coastal commercial fishery efforts. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Just-IN  https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0081