SOLE-mar(Sistemas Operacionales de Lucha por el Entorno marino)

José A. PEREZ AGUNDEZ 1 Juan FREIRE 2 , Juan López3 …

1 IFREMER,

Service d’Economie Martime (SEM)

Technopole Centre de Brest

BP 70 29820 Plouzané, France

jose.perez@ifremer.fr

3 Professional association of fishers’ organizations affected by the Prestige oil spill

Maritime safety operations within the Community Initiative Interreg III B; Stavanger, 19 th and 20th April 2004

2 Departamento de Bioloxia Animal, Bioloxia Vexetal e

Ecoloxia Universidade da Coruña Campus da Zapateira s/n E-15071 A Coruña, Spain

jfreire@udc.es

Partners- SpainUniversity of A Coruña (biologists, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers)Comision de Cofradías afectadas por la marea negra del Prestige (Professional

association of fishers’ organizations affected by the Prestige oil spill)University of Vigo (economists)Universidad de SantiagoEco-Desarrollo-GAIAWWF-ADENA

- FranceLocal or regional institutionIfremer (economists, biologists, others)CEDREUniversity of Brest UBO-CEMEM (economists)Comité Régional de pêche de Bretagne (Professional association)Section Régionale Conchylicole Bretagna Nord et Sud (Professional association)

- United KingdomCemare (+ Cefas ?)- PortugalIpimar

Objectives of SOLE

- Recent accidents : ecological impacts activities harvesting natural resources

- Necessity for managers to have information

- Utility

- Manage risk : ex. Definition of “security-refuge ports”

- Identification of economic and ecologic sensitive areas for preventive protocols

- Accelerate evaluation and compensation processes of oil spills

Build a tool to help decision making processesby an aggregated geographic information system

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Research Actions

RA 1.- Analysis of natural coastal resources and natural capital

RA 2.- Analysis of coastal fishing activities

RA 3.- Analysis of the shellfish farming sector

RA 4.- Development of methods for analysing recreational fishing activities

RA 5.- Management of oil spill crises analysed with economic methods

RA 6.- Creation of an instrument to help decision making processes

for management of oil spills crisis

RA 7.- Institutional analysis and insertion of SOLE in existing protocols

Summary-discussion

- Difficulty and slowness to evaluate risks and economic impacts of oil spills

- Interest for managers to improve information sources

- Necessity to improve and complete tools for management of crisis

- Possibility to integrate multidisciplinarity using a common tool

- New technologies allow to obtain information quickly

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RA 1.- Analysis of natural coastal resources and natural capital

Objectives

Design of environmental monitoring plans

Prevention of risks in case of oil spills

Methodology

Develop geo-referenced data bases (identification of habitats,

biotic communities, natural resources, socioeconomic and technological

characteristics of coastal fishers’ communities, etc.)

Survey methods: sampling and inventory methods

Results

Develop impact tables

Evaluation of pollutants and biomarkers

Establish ecological indicators

RA 2.- Analysis of coastal fishing activities and social impacts

on dependent populations

- Objectives

Description of coastal fisheries

Economic analysis of the fishing sector

Analysis of coastal populations depending on harvesting natural resources

- Methodology

Fishing monitoring systems

Social analysis of fishery-dependent

populations

- Results

Global and local surveys of fishing

Setting indicators

- Socioeconomic structure by community- Fishing analysis by community- Traditional Ecological Knowledge analysis and use to evaluate oil spill damages

RA 3.- Analysis of the shellfish farming sector

- ObjectivesDescription of the sectorEconomic analysis of enterprises in the short- and long run

- Methodology

Cadastral analysis of shellfish farming concessions

National survey of enterprises and activity

- Results

Global survey

Setting indicators

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RA 4.- Development of methods for analysing recreational fishing activities

- Objectives

Obtaining information about economic damages in recreational fisheries

Measuring sensitiveness of recreational fisheries to oil spills

- Methodology

Problems to determine the population concerned

Telephone surveys

Economic methods for analysing recreational activities

- Results

Economic evaluation of important recreational fisheries : ex : “bass”

Simulation of impacts in case of environmental damages

RA 5.- Management of oil spill crises analysed by economic methods

Objectives

- Assess the ways in which responses to pollution could influence the consequences

of an oil spill for natural resource harvesters in the coastal zone.

- Analysis of individual and collective response mechanisms.

Methodology

- Short-term costs and revenues due to a pollution event

- Exploring - adaptations by economic agents to these variations.

- the role of institutional constraints and associated economic

incentives.

- The approach will be based in empirical analysis of case studies in a European context

- Development of bio-economic modeling approaches to these issues.

Case studies

Proposed case studies include:

- Fisheries: United Kingdom (Braer, Sea Empress); Spain (Urquiola, Aegean Sea,

Prestige)

- Aquaculture: France (Erika), Spain (Prestige) …

- Salt production: France (Erika)

RA 6.- Creation of an instrument to help decision-making processes

for management of oil spills crisis

- Objectives- Providing a geographical data sets of ecological and economical

indicators- Providing the necessary reference geographical data (administrative limits, areas under regulation, …)- Providing tools to access and visualize data sets (interactivity by

internet)

-- Methodology - Data aggregation from observation data sets - User oriented indicator processing - Geographical indexation - Map visualizations (on several layers to let users comparing several indicators on a single view

- Results

General System Architecture

Observed datadatabase

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Dataaggregation

Indicator processing

Geographicalindexation

User oriented database

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Quality control

User web interface

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Example of data visualization on a web site(including map representations)

Individual profilesIndividual profiles

RA 7.- Institutional analysis and insertion of SOLE in existing protocols

- Analysis of present tools for urgent decision-making processes

     analysis of management protocols for crises in France, Spain, United Kingdom

and Portugal

     description of tools and its usefulness for the management of crises

- How to insert the new tools for management of crises

   integrated cartography (GIS)

    modeling of impacts (economic and environmental risk analysis)

    documentary data base (including costs, techniques, guides)

- Evolution of financial systems

    institutional financial instruments

impact of IOPC on the future management of crises

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General System Architecture

Observed datadatabase

(Continuously managed)

Data aggregation

Indicator processing

Geographicalindexation

User oriented database

(with geographical

features)

Data input

Quality control

User web interface

Float maps

All profilesfor one float

Example of data visualization on a web site (including map representations)

Individual profiles