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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...

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...

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...

Happy holidays from Sciaena!

Sciaena’s team wishes Happy Holidays to all its members, collaborators, partners and followers. 

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 […]