Part of a four-part series of Case Study films, SEAwise’s film ‘Shifting Seas’ captures the SEAwise Western Waters story, told to you through the voices of SEAwise researchers and stakeholders, from the Bay of Biscay to the Celtic and Irish Seas.

A dynamic research programme working to operationalise Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) across Europe, the SEAwise project has involved the collaboration of scientific researchers, policy makers, and stakeholders to develop tools and actionable, tailor-made advice, which fits the specific management needs of each of the project’s Case Study regions.

Now in its final year, and told through the voices of SEAwise researchers and stakeholders, the project’s brand new Case Study film focuses on the project’s Western Waters Case Study region – encompassing the Bay of Biscay and the Celtic and Irish Seas, and their broad range of marine ecosystems, fish stocks, and multinational fisheries – which together render management challenging.

Spotlighting a story of shifting seas, and emphasising the need to respond to  changes to the climate, environment, fisheries, and society as a whole, the film presents how the effects of complex changing environmental factors on fish and fisheries – that we are now only beginning to understand – are increasingly being felt across the region’s fisheries.

Revealing how the project has worked to better predict the impact of environmental and climate change, and provide the knowledge needed to overcome challenges in the region,  the voices of the film cast light on future hopes for the Western Waters under an ecosystem based approach to fisheries management.