NourDem EMFAF 2022 (2022-2023)

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Ronan Le Goff (HALGO-LBH)

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European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF)

2022-2023

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The NourDem EMFAF 2022 project is a follow-up from NourDem EMFAF 2019-2021, and pursues the same strategy: it consists of carrying out fisheries surveys in the three major French estuaries of the Northeast Atlantic, i.e. the Seine, the Loire and the Gironde, using a large vertical opening trawl specially developed for sampling demersal fish (and in particular sea bass juveniles). The major objectives of this project are: (1) to produce abundance indices of juvenile fish using estuaries as nurseries, and in particular juveniles of European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax; (2) to map the major nurseries within the selected estuaries; and (3) to characterize the "quality" of these estuaries as nurseries. Within this 3rd objective is the characterization of the contamination of sea bass by metallic trace elements and hydrophobic and persistent organic contaminants, both historical and of emerging concern, which are the focus of our research conducted within CCEM.

This work follows the results obtained during the Ifremer funded COCONUt project:

Partners: 

RBE/CCEM : Y. Aminot, C. Munschy, K. Héas-Moisan, N. Bely, N. Olivier, N. Briant, S. Bruzac, T. Sireau
RBE/HALGO-LBH : C. Lebigre, M. Drogou

Ifremer unité CCEM Nantes, Ifremer unité HALGO Brest, observatoire PELAGIS La Rochelle