Sjókovin - Blue Resource participates in a large project on nature management in coastal and sea areas financed by Horizon Europe

MarineSABRES is an EU-funded research project that aims to address the continued and accelerated biodiversity loss caused by the intensification of human activities at land and sea. The project brings together an international consortium of 22 partners across 11 countries and has received €9.8m in funding from Horizon Europe. The project started in September 2022 and runs for 4 years.

The MarineSABRES aims to enable stakeholders from government and policy, coastal and marine management, scientists, and the public to make informed decisions that balance human and ecosystem needs.

Marine Biodiversity loss is continuing to decline despite current conservation efforts. Reversing the decline in biodiversity requires rapid rollout of effective conservation measures that can also enable a sustainable and resilient blue economy. Social-ecological systems-thinking and Ecosystem-Based Management are globally recognized tools to enable balanced marine development and conservation. Marine SABRES will co-design as Simple Social Ecological Systems approach (the Simple SES) to rapidly enable and upscale EBM across Europe and abroad. Marine SABRES will set European marine management on a course to reverse biodiversity decline, it will conserve and protect biodiversity by integrating sustainable ecosystems and a resilient blue economy; enable managers to make sustainable decisions; empower citizens to engage with marine biodiversity conservation; promote sustainable development and in coastal and marine sectors. Marine SABRES is comprised of an interdisciplinary consortium including world leaders in the field of EBM and Social Ecological System distributed across Europe and focusing demonstration of practical management efforts in three Demonstration Areas (Tuscan Archipelago, the Arctic North-East Atlantic and Macaronesia) before upscaling throughout Europe and beyond.

Sjokovin will mainly be working on pelagic fishery in the Arctic seas and how the countries that manage the fish stock can best meet the challenges that arise from changes in distribution and population size, which are caused by climate change, amongst other things. This part of the project will be achieved in collaboration with administrations, shipowners/companies and other relevant parts.

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