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Newsletter
February 2014
« Analyze, monitor and reduce
the loss of marine biodiversity »
February 2014 Newsletter
Summary
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November’s fishing
EDITORIAL
(RC - Cefrem)
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Dec & Jan’s fishing
(LHG - Stelamarre)
Focus on CREM’s opening p.5
Communication
around the Project
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Communication
around the Project
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The first past two years gave us the possibility to have a vision on
fishes’ post larval diversity and abundance on the French
Mediterranean coasts : from Port-Vendres to Port-Cros, from
Bonifacio to Bastia, around 60 species with substantial gaps
between geographic zones. This first phase marks an important step
in our work and shows the interest of this kind of results for
managers and commercial fishermen, that is to say the possibility to
find marine population monitoring tools, whether they are
patrimonial or exploited, deep-sea or benthic, herbivorous or top
predators.
The second phase now concerns the re-stocking action. The year
2013 did not give us the possibility to reach the expected goals,
because of the number of captured species to be released and
particularly harsh weather on Port-Barcarès. The year 2014 has to
give us the opportunity to fulfill this important step in restocking
validation as a support of marine’s population and therefore to
biodiversity. This shows that the ecological rehabilitation actions
proposed by humans have to be reinforced because of
environmental variability but, that in parallel, we have to respect as
much as possible the doctrine on impacts: Avoid, Reduce,
Compensate. Moving in parallel with the SUBLIMO project, we work
on the DRIVER project, financed by the French national Water
Agency of the Rhône Méditerranée Corse region, the Conseil
Général du Var and the Pôle Mer Méditerrannée to define
ecological rehabilitation guidelines for coastal small sea beds,
where the nurseries that we are trying to restore with SUBLIMO
are. DRIVER will give us the opportunity to write a small guide on
ecological rehabilitation and will make us able to accompany the
achievement of SUBLIMO’s workshop in 2015.
Philippe Lenfant
SUBLIMO Coordinator
February 2014 Newsletter
November’s Fishing
Muges (RC-Cefrem)
Leucate/Barcarès
site
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Fisheries
conducted during November 2013 helped
capture 73 individuals belonging to less
than a dozen species. Among those, a
majority of Sea beam (Pagellus acarne)
and Mullets, but also Elvers, Scorpion
fishes and Sepiolas.
Bastia site : in Bastia, 36 individuals have
been caught for 6 species including a
majority of Mugilidae (Mugilidae sp.), but
also Diplodus Puntazzo, Sean Beams and
Salema Porgies.
Saupe (RC-Cefrem)
Concerning Leucate-Barcares’ site, the
number of captured individuals is way
lower than last years’ at the same period
(302 individuals in November 2012). For
Bastia’s site, the numbers are alike (44
individuals caught for 5 species in 2012).
Mugilidae sp. (LHG-Stella Mare)
Diplodus pontazzo (LHG-Stella Mare)
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December & January’s fishings:
Leucate/Barcarès site : A dozen of species have
been caught in December/January. Among those,
we mainly find sepiolas, mullets, sea beams
(Pagellus acarne), octopuses (which fish farming
is particularly tricky), elvers and secondarly some
Salema porgy, phycis phycis (Gaïdropsarus
mediterraneus), sand smelts and seeweed
pipefishes.
The number of individuals caught is lower than
last year’s (219 individuals caught against 352
individuals in 2012 of which 197 mullets).
However, the number of individuals caught in
december 2013 was higher than those of 2012
(almost double), but also in terms of diversity of
species caught (ten species in december 2013
versus 6 in 2012).
Pagellus acarne (LHG-Stella Mare)
Diplodus vulgaris (LHG-Stella Mare)
Also note for this site, the presence of elvers in
almost every fishing on the Nov-Dec-Jan period
and an important amount of jellyfishes in DecJan.
Bastia site : 8 species were caught in December and January with 122
Salema porgy, 79 sea breams (Pagellus acarne), about 60 mullets, about 20
clupeidae, 3 greater argentice and 3 banded sea breams (Diplodus vulgaris).
100 additional individuals were caught compared to last year. Species are
comparable except for Argentina sphyraena and Diplodus vulgaris.
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Focus of the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Port-Barcarès Research center
The new Research Center on Marine Ecosystems (CREM) at Port-Barcarès has been inaugurated on Monday
December 16th 2013 with the presence of many personalities.
After visiting of premises made available for the UPVD by the Port-Barcarès Municipality, the various
important figures, including Christian BOURQUIN, Senator and head of Languedoc-Roussillon Regional
Council, as well as the natural marine park of the Gulf of Lion, Fabrice LORENTE, President of the Perpignan
Via Domitia University (UPVD), Alain FERRAND, Port Barcarès’ mayor and Philippe LENFANT Professor in
charge of the CREM, underlined, each one in its sector, the importance of this center to find solutions on
marine ecological restoration.
Worth mentioning, among the large audience, the presence of Fabrice AUSCHER from DREAL (the French
regional environment, planning and housing agency), Pierre BOISSERY from Agence de l’Eau, Marc
TROUSSELLIER, deputy scientific director of the CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research), Xavier PY,
scientific vice-president of UPVD, Marc PLANAS, President of the Regional Fisheries Committee, as well as
many academics, ports’ directors and nearby cities representatives like Leucate, the Syndicat Rivage…. This
new partnership between the University and the Barcarès’ municipality confirms the strong will to sustain
research on marine biodiversity (started from 2005 by Joëlle Ferrand with the immersion of artificial reefs in
Port-Barcarès) in order to find solutions that could contribute to restocking and to ecological restoration, but
also to scientists training and exchanges between universities.
The person in charge of CREM, Philippe LENFANT thanked all of its
partners and catalysts and for this occasion, Pôle Mer
Méditerrannée, the water agency RMC and various SME member
were cited. The creation of this new unit underlines the dynamism
and excitement that moves today the coastal ecological
engineering emerging sector in which a lot of partners believe and
work for its structuring.
The day was punctuated by a projection of the Sublimo’s movie
and by a round-table debate on ecological restoration.
Video highlights of the opening day
(GS-Cefrem)
You can watch this opening highlights thanks to a TV coverage
made by BTV - Port-Barcares TV on :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRhuD85HZI
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Communication around the Projet
Steering Committee
On January 24th & 29th 2014, the project partners, along with the companies Ecocean & Efficient
Innovation, gathered at the CREM and in videoconference with Corsica for a steering committee in
order to establish an assessment of the past months actions and to plan tasks and everyone’s action for
the coming months. Various subjects have been discussed like the administrative and financial issues
and a reflection was initiated on the set-up design of the emancipation habitats for the post-larvae
release follow-up.
By Mid-February, the team from Perpignan went to Bastia in Corsica de discuss administrative and
financial issues.
Special Edition of the Research Mag’ de l’UPVD
Requested by the University of Perpignan, Philippe LENFANT wrote an article
on the Sublimo’s program in the Special Edition of the Hors Série Recherche
Number 2 for the UPVD magazine, a magazine popularizing subjects for the
general public. This magazine puts forward research work developed within
the laboratories of the University of Perpignan through articles, readable by all,
written by academic teachers and researchers.
(AT Cefrem)
Scientific output
On November 26th 2013 was specifically booked for Anne TESSIER’s thesis
defense whose topic was : « the characterisation of artificial reefs of the Gulf
of Lion: from ecology to users ». Thesis that Anne brilliantly obtained…
Congrats!!!!!!
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Communication around the Projet
Sublimo’s project on TF1’s news broadcast !
On November 15th 2013, some TF1’s reporters went to the Research
center on Marine Ecosystem site in Port-Barcarès, in order to make a TV
report on the Sublimo’s program. For this occasion, the project’s
aquaculture technician Laurie LÈBRE, explained during an interview the
farming methods used and more specifically, the procedures for non
domestication used. Philippe LENFANT could explain the program’s whys
and wherefores next to Gilles SARAGONI, research engineer at Cefrem.
The reporting was broadcasted during the afternoon news presented by
Claire CHAZAL on January the 12th.
The video of the TV show can be watched on Cefrem’s website at:
http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-we/2014/une-nurserie-pour-proteger-les-larvesde-poissons-8345501.html
Interview for Campus Mag LR and Sublimo in The Indépendant newspaper
Philippe LENFANT, UPVD professor, in charge of the Sublimo’s program
and Gilles SARAGONI, CNRS engineer, at the training and research center
on the Mediterranean environment (CEFREM – CNRS/UPVD) agreed to
answer some Campus Mag Languedoc Roussillon reporters questions on
November the 25th. The 4 minutes video can be seen on:
http://www.campusmag-lr.tv/
An article about the Sublimo’s program has also been written on the
regional newspaper l’Indépendant on November 6th 2013.
Highlights on important coming dates for Sublimo
 Next months: Visit from the European Commission representatives in April.
Website
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Medplanet website is also available on : http://www.med-planet.net
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Just a little bit more of CREM’s opening !
Full auditorium
(GS Cefrem)
(GS Cefrem)
Fishing gear demonstration
Philippe Lenfant’s speech
(GS -Cefrem)
(GS Cefrem)
Philippe Lenfant, Fabrice Lorente, Christian Bourquin and Alain Ferrand
(GS Cefrem)
The Port-Barcarès’ CREM
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(GS Cefrem)
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Démonstration de l’engin de pêche
Romain CREC'HRIOU © CEFREM-CNRS
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CONTACTS
Philippe LENFANT (1) and Sylvia AGOSTINI (2)
Project coordinators
(1) Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens CEFREM - UMR 5110 CNRS-UPVD
Université de Perpignan, 52 avenue Paul Alduy,
66860 Perpignan Cédex, France
Tél : 33(0)4 68 66 21 95 – [email protected] – www.life-sublimo.fr
(2) Plateforme STELLA MARE
UMS 3514 & UMR SPE CNRS-UCPP
Université de Corse, Lido de la Marana, Ancien Casone,
20620 Biguglia, France
Tél : 33(0)6 22 10 75 14 – [email protected]
www.life-sublimo.fr