World Fisheries Day, 21 November 2023
World Fisheries Day is celebrated every year on 21 November around the globe. This year's motto focused on social sustainability and working conditions in the [...]
Webinar: Nigeria’s Fisheries challenges and opportunities
The new President of Nigeria has created a Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy as one of the innovations to social and economic development of [...]
Presenting the FishBase app at the Symposium in Tervuren
The FishBase Team of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, headed by Prof. Jos Snoeks, hosted the annual FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium for the [...]
MARE Conference on Blue Fear – Mundus maris reflects
Blue Fear – navigating ecological, social and existential anxieties during the Anthropocene - Amsterdam, 27-30 June 2023
The Transition From Vulnerability to Viability Through Illuminating Hidden Harvests, 26 May 2023
This webinar on 26 May 2023 in the series of monthly events of the V2V research platform uncovered the contributions and impacts of small-scale fisheries [...]
EGU sessions focused on geoethics and joint learning, 23-28 April 2023
The beginnings of geoethics about a decade ago initiated by Silvia Peppoloni and Giuseppe Di Capua, geologists from Rome, were rather whimsical. The geoethics work [...]
Solidarity with artisanal fishers in Senegal and Mauritania
When gas discoveries of 425 billion cubic meters were confirmed in 2015 for the coastal areas shared between Mauritania and Senegal, it spawned hope, such [...]
The legal instruments for the development of sustainable small-scale fisheries governance in Nigeria, 31 March 2023
This talk by Foluke Omotayo Areola provided an overview of the major challenges to the sustainability of small-scale fisheries and their governance in Nigeria. It [...]
Tools for Gender Analysis: Understanding Vulnerability and Empowerment, 17 February 2023
This talk by Andrea M. Collins of the University of Waterloo in Canada provided a high-level overview of the various tools and perspectives for undertaking [...]
Community resilience: A framework for non-traditional field research, 27 January 2023
This talk dwells upon different research paradigms such as Hypothesis-oriented, Assessment-oriented, Action-oriented, Systems-oriented, Social adaptive (similar to V2V) frameworks. The motivation behind this talk is [...]