The SturSNiP's Consortium

The SturSNiP consortium consists of 6 partners with links to EU-policy and expertise in population genetics, Sturgeon biology, GIS technology, state-of-the-art DNA analysis, and wildlife forensics:

	TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network (lead partner) Webpage: www.tracenetwork.org
	Department of Biology - University of Padova Webpage: http://dept.bio.unipd.it
	Gene Pool  - University of Edinburgh Webpage: http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk
	Iranian Fisheries Research Organisation Contact: Webpage:
	Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) The Centre of Molecular Genetic Identification Webpage: http://ocean.infospace.ru/engl/main.htm
	School of Biological Sciences - University of Edinburgh Webpage: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/biology
	Joint Research Centre Webpage: https://fishreg.jrc.ec.europa.eu

SturSNiP is financed by the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and was launched by the action FISHREG of the Maritime Affairs Unit. The JRC, a Directorate General of the European Commission, provides scientific support to fisheries management, control and enforcement, based on technologies derived from molecular genetics. To this end it constantly adapts and extends its fish database supporting species identification, population characterisation and biogeographic studies on fish species. These activities help to build a robust traceability framework, which is key, also under the remit of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), to combat illegal fishing and fraud along the fish(product) supply chain. Since the JRC fish database is publicly accessible, it is beneficial to all stakeholders including the research community, control authorities and the industry.