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International scientific projects related to marine mammals in the Pelagos Sanctuary
by Pelagos Agreement on the creation of a marine mammals Sanctuary in the Mediterranean Sea (Intergovernmental organization)
The Permanent Secretariat has launched an international scientific call for tenders to finance three projects related to the following topics in 2017 and is now supporting the project:
- collisions between ships and large cetaceans;
- pollution related to plastic waste (including micro-plastics and fishing nets);
- chemical and biological pollution of land-based origins.

Another project, entitled Dolphins without borders and selected in the framework of a previous call for tender is currently supported by the Pelagos Agreement. The project is carried on by Tethys Research Institute (in cooperation with GIS3M, Fondazione Acquario di Genova, CETUS and the University of Sassari) and deals with bottlenose dolphin. The goals of the project will include: a) to support the conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Pelagos Sanctuary; b) taking advantage of the popularity of these charismatic mammals to help raising awareness within the wider public on the conservation of the marine environment; and c) strengthening the links among Pelagos and the many MPAs and National Parks existing within the Sanctuary boundaries by promoting a sustained coordination.

The aim of the calls is to enhance knowledge and to identify management measures to be applied in the Pelagos Sanctuary area.
Progress reports
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
Type of commitment
PLASTICS
  • Other (please specify): Macro-plastics and micro-plastics
OTHER POLLUTANTS (please specify)
  • Other (please specify): Chemical pollutants, biological pollutants, ghost gears
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Type of commitment
  • Integrated Coastal Management
  • Large Marine Ecosystem approach
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Type of commitment
  • Reduction of fisheries by-catch and product waste/losses
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
Type of commitment
  • MPA management and/or enforcement
  • Other (please specify): SPAMI
12/2019
Calls for tenders
Financing (in USD)
360,000 USD
Basic information
Time-frame: 07/2017 - 12/2019
Partners
Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement (IGO)
Ocean Basins
  • North Atlantic
Beneficiary countries
Other beneficaries
Scientific communities, NGOs, Academic institutions, Private sectors, International organisations.
Contact information
Costanza Favilli, Acting Executive Secretary, secretariat@pelagos-sanctuary.org, +377 92 16 11 55
Principality of Monaco
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