The goal of CLIMEFISH is to identify new strategies in fisheries and aquaculture in order to mitigate risks and utilize opportunities under climate change. This project counts with CETMAR together with 20 other entities from 16 Countries.
The CLIMEFISH consortium wants to contribute to robust employment and sustainable developlment of rural and coastal communities, given the expected developments in climate.
Between now and 2020 the project’s partners will develop forecasts for production scenarios that will serve as input to socio-economic analysis and will identify risks and opportunities. The underlying biological models used in making the forecasts are based upon single species distribution and production, as well as multispecies interactions.
Thus, CETMAR will play a relevant role in identifying new strategies in co-creation with stakeholders. This Galician Foundation will coordinate different activities among scientists, industrial sectors, policymakers or NGOs, searching for joint solutions.
CLIMEFISH will provide guidelines for how to make climate enabled plans do prepare and adapt to climate change while minimizing economic losses and social consequences, giving scientific advice and improving the long-term production, planning and policy designs.
The project is addressed to the fisheries and aquaculture productive sectors as well as to lake and pond production, including 16 case studies and involving more than 25 species.
The 21 CLIMEFISH partners –research institutes as Investigaciones Marinas-CSIC from Vigo, universities and firms from Europe, Canada, Chile and Vietnam- will held the launching of this project during the month of May in TromsØ, Norway. It is financed by the EU with a budget amounting to 5 million euros.
