MIAREM

Sicily and Tunisia overlook and share part of the Mediterranean Sea, from which they acquire very important resources for the socio-economic development of the respective territories: quality of the marine environment, fishing, tourism, equilibrium of coastal dynamics. Actions to protect and restore important marine habitats are strategic for maintaining and developing the prosperity of the territories. The objective of the project is the creation and transfer of technological know-how aimed at the recovery and environmental protection of degraded parts of the seabed, through the restoration of Posidonia Oceanica meadows.

The regression of the Posidonia Oceanica meadows causes evident imbalances in the dynamics coastal, with a gradual decline in fish stocks of valuable species for small-scale fishing. The project activities aim to transfer a recovery model, already applied along the Italian coasts, to ensure the reversal of the impoverishment processes that currently strongly affect the coasts Tunisian. The innovative elements reside in the use of patented biopolymeric materials used in replanting, as well as the design and installation of protective structures of the replanting site, made with sustainable and eco-compatible materials with the marine environment, which also perform the function of encourage fish restocking. The beneficiaries of the interventions will be the local communities of the interested territories.