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Sciaena co-organizes the 6th National Meeting on Climate Justice
Sciaena is one of the co-organizers of the 6th National Meeting on Climate Justice. Together with 17 other associations, and as in previous years, we will seek to expose, develop and debate one of the most urgent issues of our time: the climate crisis. On the 12th and 13th of March, we come together and […]
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Sciaena joins Outermost Regions Advisory Council
The Outermost Regions Advisory Council (ORAC) is the most recent fisheries advisory council to be created in the European Union. Its objective is to inform the European Commission and member states about the issues, challenges and good practices of management and conservation of fishing resources in the outermost regions, but also to propose...
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“Ocean planning in the age of climate change” with Catarina Frazão Santos
On March 4, between 1:30 pm and 3:00 pm GMT, Sciaena will host the webinar “Ocean planning in the age of climate change”, with Catarina Frazão Santos.
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Sciaena organizes webinar with researcher Marisa Vedor about blue and mako sharks
Sciaena gets back in the webinar world, with an event regarding an ever more pressing issue – the threats sharks are up against, namely blue and mako sharks, with the special participation of researcher Marisa Vedor. The webinar, entitled “Movements and behaviour of two widely distributed sharks at risk from fishing”, will...
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Fisheries Committee vote creates loopholes that put sustainability and legality of EU seafood at risk
In a mixed bag of voting outcomes, the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee (PECH) has called for more transparency around fisheries activities and traceability to seafood supply chains, while simultaneously weakening the existing rules for controlling EU fishing activities. The Committee voted on a package of amendments to the EU...
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Back to the source: saving Europe’s biodiversity starts in the ocean
On January 14, the European Parliament’s (EP) Fisheries and Environment Committees discussed a first draft of the EP’s response to the EU’s 2030 Biodiversity Strategy, published by the European Commission in May 2020. Parliament will finalize and vote on its position in the coming months and this Strategy is fundamental to...
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Happy holidays from Sciaena!
Sciaena’s team wishes Happy Holidays to all its members, collaborators, partners and followers.
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In the shadow of Brexit and COVID-19, Portugal and the EU make progress to end overfishing, falling short of legal and environmental commitments
This morning, negotiations ended at the European Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries (AGRIFISH), the meeting at the end of the year where fishing quotas for the European Union (EU) for the following year are usually decided. In a year conditioned by the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and the still uncertain outcome of the […]
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ICCAT – 2021 will be a decisive year for Atlantic tunas and sharks
The 23rd annual meeting of ICCAT – the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna, responsible for the fisheries management of large pelagic species of the Atlantic Ocean – should have taken place last november in Turkey and with the presence of representatives from more than 50 members from the commission, but...
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The unintended impact of the European discard ban | Webinar with Lisa Borges
On December 10, between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm GMT, Sciaena will organize a webinar entitled “The unintended impact of the landing obligation” with Lisa Borges from FishFix.
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