Past Events

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 related to the implementation of EU Water Framework Directive and EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

Please see link below for more information and how to register.

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• Information and registration

More info forthcoming.

More info forthcoming.

The XXIInd Conference of the European Association of Fisheries Economists will be held in Salerno from 28th to 30th April 2015. And is organised by NISEA, Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics Research, Salerno and DISES, Department of Economics and Statistics Sciences, University of Salerno.

The theme of the conference is "New management issues within the reformed Common Fishery Policy: implementation and socio-economic impacts". The conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of recent advances in capture fisheries and aquaculture economics and management and to promote discussion amongst researchers, managers, policy makers and other stakeholders in the fisheries sector.

Last day to register is January 31. To register your participation to the EAFE2015 conference, please use the registration form to be filled in at http://www.eafe2015.unisa.it/registration/registration

For more information please see link below.

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• Information and registration

The 13^th meeting of the working group on Good Environmental Status (GES WG) will be held: Wednesday 22^nd April 2015 – 11:00-18.00 & Thursday 23^rd April 2015 – 09.00-17.00 at the Conference Centre Albert Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels (Room 2/C).

Agenda forthcoming.

More info forthcoming. 

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• Fisheries Council Meetings

The second meeting of HELCOM FISH group will be held 15-16 April 2015 in Warsaw in the premises of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Agenda and invitation forthcoming.

This year’s Kurt Grönfors Lecture includes speeches by Erik Lindebo, Mike Melnychuk and Ragnar Tveterås that address the issue of sustainable seafood production from three different perspectives.

Sustainable management of fish and fisheries resources is a global challenge, which requires knowledge across natural and social science perspectives. Many of these resources have suffered the effects of open-access conditions with depleted stocks and poor profitability for a long time. Recently, catch share systems and aquaculture have offered solutions to the open-access problem, but at the same time put focus on other types of challenges for sustainable management.

DAY: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 TIME: 13:15-17:00 VENUE: Room B33, School of Business, Economics and Law, Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg

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• Registration
• Information about the speakers

This hearing will discuss issues such as improvements in selectivity based on both technical development and other measures, with a focus on fishing gear.

Please see links below for draft agenda.

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• Draft agenda
• Public hearing information

On 31 March, the PECH Committee will vote on the multiannual plan for multispecies of the Baltic Sea. This is the first management plan to be presented by the Commission under the new CFP. It sets management targets for cod, sprat and herring in order to achieve a better management of the stocks as they interact. For more information please see links below.

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• Draft agenda
• Meeting documents
• Draft Baltic multiannual plan