Title: Responsabile settore Pesca e Acquacoltura

Association/Company: Regione Liguria – Settore Politiche agricole e della Pesca

Biography
Laurea in Scienze biologiche, Laurea in Scienze Naturali.
Dal 1999 Responsabile regionale della pesca marittima ed acquacoltura professionali (Reg. Liguria) con funzioni di Programmazione, indirizzo e coordinamento dei settori medesimi.
Responsabile regionale dell’organizzazione e del coordinamento della ricerca in materia di pesca, acquacoltura e gestione delle risorse ittiche Programmazione e gestione del Fondo Europeo per gli Affari Marittimi e la Pesca (FEAMP) 2014-2020.
Funzioni: supporto al dirigente nelle funzioni di indirizzo e coordinamento, membro del Tavolo istituzionale Ministero-Regioni, elaborazione documenti di programmazione, elaborazione piano finanziario pluriennale, validazione dati fisici e finanziari, responsabile misure 1.32, 1.41, 2.51, 4.62, 4.63, 4.64 Redazione ed aggiornamento del Programma regionale triennale della Pesca e dell’Acquacoltura.
Coordinamento per conto del Dirigente della Commissione consultiva regionale per la pesca e l’acquacoltura.
Referente per la Regione Liguria della Piattaforma nazionale dell’Acquacoltura ITAQUA
Responsabile dell’organizzazione e della redazione dei programmi di Assistenza Tecnica.
Redazione, aggiornamento e coordinamento del Piano di Gestione per la pesca del Rossetto (Aphia minuta) per la GSA9 (Liguria-Toscana- Lazio) – deroga europea Reg. CE n. 1967/2006.
Predisposizione del Piano di sperimentazione per la pesca del novellame di pesce azzurro
Collabora con ARPAL, ASL e IZS PLV per la pubblicazione di articoli di carattere scientifico in particolare sull’acquacoltura.
Collabora con l’Università di Genova per la pubblicazione di articoli di carattere scientifico in particolare su specie di interesse venatorio e di pesca professionale e ricreativa.
Collabora con il Settore Politiche della Montagna e della Fauna Selvatica e per le attività di ricerca inerenti la caccia e di gestione faunistica.

Speech session
New EMFAF programs

Speech
Aquaculture, which future? – Political and programmatic tools

Abstract
Aquaculture is assuming an increasing role in fish production, also as a result of the decline in production from capture.
Currently at the EU level, as far as fish farming is concerned, the development of activities at sea in floating cages is proving to be competitive with respect to plants located on land, due to the reduced energy costs and the reduced environmental impact they generate. As far as shellfish farming is concerned, it is an economic sector of certain national interest in consideration of the growth potential of this sector which does not require robust energy inputs, which has more space than fish farming and which on a social level lends itself to models of reconversion of small-scale fishing, as already demonstrated in various areas of the Italian peninsula.
However, a number of critical issues currently prevent the full development of this important activity:

• Difficulty for operators to obtain concessions at sea with streamlined procedures and guarantors of environmental protection through a correct selection of sites,
• Competition, for mariculture, for the acquisition of spaces with other productive activities,
• Difficulty in diversifying production,
• Lack of an adequate information and promotion policy.
  In order to overcome these critical issues, it is absolutely essential to make the best use of the resources of the forthcoming FEAMPA 21-27 programming a series of political and programmatic tools that can be summarized as follows:

• improvement of environmental and health sustainability, mainly intervening on the analysis and control of potential environmental and health risk factors;
• increase in the competitiveness of companies, through:

– diversification of production in relation to the species, with regard to sustainable forms of breeding, such as the breeding of new native species;

– diversification of productive activity, in particular through tourism and processing;
– optimization of the breeding process, through the continuous control of the traceability of the raw materials acquired and the

improvement of the plants,
– research and development of technological solutions suitable for the exposed sites;
– identification of new areas to be allocated to the development of innovative forms of aquaculture;
– productive growth of off-shore plants to allow economies of scale, always respecting environmental integrity;

•  increasing the potential of aquaculture sites, with particular reference to shellfish and off-shore aquaculture;
• training, information and professional updating activities for operators,
• institutional promotion activities.