ECOSEAS is engaged in improving MPA’s staff skills to achieve MPA conservation goals
On September 23 to 27th 2019, in the National Marine Park of Zakynthos (Greece) will take place a summer school “Design and implement monitoring activities to assess Marine Protected Areas ecological and fisheries effectiveness: improving MPA’s manager skills”, as part of the FishMPABlue 2 project.
The goal of the summer school is to increase MPAs’ staff’s skills on how to design and implement monitoring activities to assess Marine Protected Areas ecological and fisheries effectiveness. Specifically, participants will be trained on the use of methodologies and techniques of environmental (underwater visual census, baited underwater videos), economic (assessment of catches and their economic value) and social (questionnaires) monitoring aspects of small scale fisheries in MPAs.
The ECOSEAS laboratory will take part in this event as an expert on the methods used to monitor small scale fisheries.
