The recent European Commission “Sustainable Blue Growth Agenda for the Baltic Sea Region” adopted on 16 May 2014 makes a strong call for a stakeholder-driven coherent, cross-Baltic approach to innovation, sustainability, skills and qualifications. As a first step of this agenda, the European Commission will launch a Maritime Stakeholder’s Platform on 26-27 March 2015 in … Continued
The meeting will focus on technical and horizontal aspects of this first multispecies management plan, which will also provide basis for coherent legislative framework for future mutlispecies plans in the EU RSVP to jaroslow.walesa@europarl.europa.eu before 5th of January 2015. Please see attached document for more information.
A high level conference on the results of Axis 4 of the European Fisheries Fund and the future of Community-Led Local Development in coastal communities. For more information please see letter of invitation and agenda below.
ICES will host a Workshop to Evaluate the TAC Calculation for Herring in IIIa and management plan for herring in the North Sea (WKHerTAC). The workshop will take place at ICES in Copenhagen 13–16 January 2015.
A meeting between ICES, the Advisory Councils (ACs) and observers will take place at ICES offices in Copenhagen from 1pm Tuesday 13 to 1 pm Wednesday 14th.
ICES invites to a stakeholder workshop on collbaorative mapping of North Sea herring spawning grounds. To register please email claire(at)iced.dk and dorothy(at)imr.no Please see below for draft agenda.
The Danish Agri Fish Agency invites to a meeting regarding Natura 2000 areas in the Kattegat and the western Baltic. The meeting will be held in Danish.
This meeting will deal with the Commission proposal for a multi-species management plan for the Baltic. MEPs have been invited for an Exchange of views. There are plans of a broader meeting in the afternoon, where BSAC representatives will be invited to.
The training course is designed for DG MARE officials and is also open to the members of the RACs and other stakeholders. The course includes topics such as the advisory process (including data collection) and the latest developments at ICES (on data limited stocks, mixed fisheries and multispecies fisheries). Please note that the subjects of … Continued
The Scientific Symposium ”Tools for assessing status of European aquatic ecosystems” is a joint product of the research programmes DEVOTES, WATERS (www.waters.gu.se) and MARS (www.mars-project.eu). The symposium will bring together scientists and environmental managers to present and discuss state-of-the-art indicator development and assessment methods for ecological/environmental status of freshwater and marine ecosystems. The focus of the presentations will be … Continued