Strict protection in European seas: how it helps people and nature
The 4th EU Blue Parks Community Workshop took place on 6 March 2025 in Brussels as part of the third edition of the EU Ocean [...]
Help Design the European Ocean Pact, Brussels, 5 March 2025
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced the Commission wants to develop a new Ocean Pact in order to ensure coherence across all [...]
3rd Starfish Mission Forum, Brussels, 4 March 2025
The EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’ held its third annual forum meeting on 4 March 2025 in the Charlemagne Building in Brussels. The [...]
The 7th Halieutis Conference was titled “Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Fisheries Sector”
The 7th Halieutis series of events in Agadir started on 1st of February 2025 with an International Exhibition complete with high-level Conference under the High [...]
Human – Biodiversity Relationships Across Scales
This was the title of an exciting workshop convened from 3 to 7 February 2025 in the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, by a [...]
Mundus maris at Boot 2025 on the ‘love your ocean’ platform
This year’s motto at the Boot fair in Düsseldorf, from 18 to 26 January 2025, was ‘We love water’, complete with a specially composed song [...]
What future for European fishers?
Not a trivial question; especially considering that nine years back a detailed study on the state of fisheries resources in European waters demonstrated the enormous [...]
WTO still without a deal on harmful fisheries subsidies
Changemakers of the coalition ‘Stop funding overfishing, stop harmful fisheries subsidies’ at MC13 Today, as during the past Ministerial Conference (MC13), the vast [...]
Improving Fisheries Governance (IFG) in Ghana and the Wider Subregion, Accra, 22-24 October 2024
Prof. Francis Nunoo, Chairman, of the Fisheries Commission Board, Ghana, opened the workshop with participants from fisheries departments and civil society organisations from member countries [...]
Maritime Security 2024: Innovations and Partnerships for the Future, Praia
courtesy UNITAR The 'Maritime Security 2024: Innovations and Partnerships for the Future' was a 2-day meeting from 8-9 October, 2024, hosted by the [...]