The EU-funded EcoScope project (Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy ecosystems) aims to promote effective ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM). This last General Assembly (GA), which is being held in Athens from 24-26 June 2025, brings together all project partners for the last time to share the results of the project and showcase the final products of EcoScope. These include:
- Ecosystem models for eight European case study areas to test the consequences of management and policy scenarios;
- The EcoScope platform to visualise and map a large quantity of data, including oceanographic, biological and fisheries data;
- The EcoScope Toolbox with three sustainability scoring indices that are based on interdisciplinary and EBFM relevant indicators;
- A new fisheries edition for the Eastern Mediterranean of the Maritime Spatial Planning Challenge Simulation game;
- The EcoScope Academy with nine free online courses on ecocentric fisheries management; and
- The EcoScope App, a mobile application for enhancing the engagement of the public in fisheries management through citizen science.
Possible sequels of the EcoScope project are also being discussed during this last GA.
You can find out more about EMB's involvement in EcoScope here.