How to cope with climate change in Galician mussel culture? First stakeholder event for the Spanish mussel case study took place in Sada, Galicia, the 22nd of February. A total of 18 participants attended the workshop, including representatives from the mussel culture industry, Galician administration and ClimeFish partners from CSIC and CETMAR. The main goal…
IIFET 2018 Special Session: Economic and social impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture Session Description: Over the next decades climate change will continue to severely impact marine ecosystems, resulting in new threats and opportunities for dependent communities. Changes in species distribution have already been observed, for instance due to the mostly northwards expansion…
The ClimeFish Coordinator, Prof. Michaela Aschan, had a key note presentation at the Arctic Frontiers in Tromsø, Norway, the 23rd of January. Her presentation was entiteled Sustainable aquaculture in northern Europe under Climate Change and you can find her abstract here. In 2018 the Arctic Frontiers Policy program had five main sessions with the following titles: State…
Take action – participate in online public consultation on adaptation to climate change in fisheries and aquaculture I your country The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on EU Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change that is open until 1/03/2018. This consultation will gather views from a broad range of stakeholders to increase the…
Workshop: Making a “Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results” for H2020 projects The 11th January, partners in ClimeFish, PrimeFish, FarFish and Mareframe met at Nofima in Tromsø Norway to discuss exploitation and dissemination of results in EU projects. Under Horizon 2020, it’s more important than ever to disseminate and exploit the results of…
Policy Briefing on forecasting and anticipating effects of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture in the European Comission, Brussels on Friday 15th of December 2017 The event was arranged by the Directorate General (DG) for Research and Innovation to facilitate communication, dissemination and discussions and thereby increase impact of project outcomes. Altogether 17 persons were…
ClimeFish was at the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 Information Week in Brussels last week. The event gave a clear overview of the wide cross-sectorial and interdisciplinary marine, maritime and aquatic research and innovation in Horizon 2020, and its relevance to EU policies, the Bioeconomy and the Blue Economy. Researchers, the industry, policy makers, including…
ClimeFish results are included in the curriculum for Bachelor students in Biology at UiT the Arctic University of Tromsø and one of the students Vegar Seljestokken volunteered to communicate what he had learned to youth outside the university. On Friday the 24th of November Vegar gave a lecture on “Climate change and fisheries in the…
Around 50 participants took up the Climathon challenge in Vigo with more than 280 ideas to tackle climate change More research to improve knowledge, development of adaptation and management measures, to promote new species and local consumption, or to improve legal frameworks were some of the ideas the participants posed in the Galicia Climathon challenge:…
By: Jan Kubečka and Allan Souza, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences Freshwater systems are smaller and less studied than marine despite the high human dependence and impact on them. Lipno reservoir is the largest reservoir in Czechia and experienced dramatic fluctuation of anglers catches recently. The available data on fishery is fragmented and still…