This project will work on providing skills, tools and means towards achieving the following high level result: By 2022 the impacts of selected fisheries on priority species and habitats are reduced in three separate geographies (Alboran Sea; Sicily Channel; Central Aegean & Levantine Basin). The on-the ground activities will focus on developing and implementing standardised data collection of bycatch and testing mitigation measures for their effectiveness in reducing single and multi-taxa bycatch. They will involve collaborations between national fisheries institutes, local NGOs and fishers and fishing associations and plans, to leverage change and provide benefits within all of the coastal Mediterranean countries on the issue of bycatch, specifically through communication and advocacy activities with the fishing industries and decision makers.
