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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Senegalese youths need better futures at home!
A broad coalition of local organizations in Senegal is calling on the new government to take decisive action to improve conditions for its people. A [...]
Mundus maris at the FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium
The annual FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium is the occasion to showcase advances in biodiversity research and use of the global information systems to promote recovery and sustainable use [...]