Project summary:

SAMESEA aims to enhance the transnational harmonization of the application of maritime monitoring and coordination practices among the different regions of the EUSAIR basin. The project aims also to improve the dialogue between socio-economic activities and authorities responsible for marine biodiversity conservation, suffering several human pressures. These challenges affect both national and regional authorities with different approaches toward the implementation of the regulations and agreements, but also economic stakeholders and the general public as without a sustainable management of interactions, marine biodiversity will decline with consequences on ecosystem goods and services. The cooperation at the macro-regional level and among the different stakeholders will ensure a long-lasting functional and sustainable co-existence and management. Working together between national and regional realities is essential to launch a new level of confrontation, capitalization, and collaboration. The consortium will create a strategy for monitoring sentinel species (C. caretta, T. truncatus, M. monachus), pilot actions, solutions for the dissemination of co-existence practices, and an action plan to improve the sustainable management of the basin.