Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

The EAF is recognised as key to healthy and productive fisheries. It has five major components: (1) maintain ecosystem integrity (no fish is an island); (2) a precautionary approach to fisheries and other use of marine and coastal ecosystems and respecting the rules; (3) broad stakeholder participation; (4) promoting sectoral integration and safeguarding livelihoods; (5) investing in research and knowledge.

Help Design the European Ocean Pact, Brussels, 5 March 2025

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 [...]

What future for European fishers?

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 [...]

Driving the Energy Transition and Climate Resilience in EU Fisheries

Driving the Energy Transition and Climate Resilience in EU Fisheries

The energy transition in the fisheries sector is not just about reducing emissions and fighting climate change—it's about ensuring the sector remains competitive on the [...]

Rethinking Fisheries – it’s Ocean Week to engage with new MEPs and a wider public

Rethinking Fisheries – it’s Ocean Week to engage with new MEPs and a wider public

From 30 September to 4 October 2024 it was Ocean Week in and around the European Parliament organised by 'blue NGOs' in Brussels, led by [...]

Pampa Azul, Argentina looking to the sea

Pampa Azul, Argentina looking to the sea

Argentina has one of the largest continental shelves on the planet an important marine food supplier and carbon dioxide sink through abundant primary productivity. A [...]

EP Hearing on EU Citizen Initiative to stop shark finning

EP Hearing on EU Citizen Initiative to stop shark finning

Did you know that sharks are killed worldwide in millions especially for their fins? Europe contributes a shocking 45% to the shark fin trade to Asian [...]

Wellbeing small-scale fishers derive from ecosystem services

Wellbeing small-scale fishers derive from ecosystem services

The last monthly lecture in 2021 organised by the V2V research initiative was delivered 17 December by Ana Carolina Esteves Dias, currently at Waterloo University, Canada. [...]

Mundus maris supports WIOMSA’s push for greater gender awareness

Mundus maris supports WIOMSA’s push for greater gender awareness

Opening ceremony paying tribute to local culture WIOMSA, the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, convened it's 11th symposium from 1 to 5 [...]

Pre-Symposium Workshop on gender

Pre-Symposium Workshop on gender

Jacqueline Uku, Opening the workshop On June, 30th 2019, as a WIOMSA pre-symposium activity, Women in Marine Science Network (WiMS), in collaboration with [...]

The role of marine ecosystems in the lives of fishing communities

The role of marine ecosystems in the lives of fishing communities

In collaboration with ULB-Coopération, Aliou Sall of Mundus maris offered a free course, 15 March 2018, to the Master students of Prof Nathalie Gypens striving to [...]