Corpenicus for fisheries and aquaculture

ClimeFish was invited to attend ‘The Copernicus for fisheries and aquaculture’ workshop in Brussels in 2nd October 2018. Climate change issues as well as ClimeFish project were received a lot of attention during the workshop. At the session ‘Fisheries challenges, user needs and innovation paths’ Thuy Pham, from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway,…

ClimeFish at AQUA2018 in Montpellier

August 25-29. 2018, Montpellier, France ClimeFish was present at the AQUA2018 conference in Montpellier. AQUA2018 was co-arranged by the European Aquaculture Scociety (EAS) and the World Aquaculture Scociety (WAS), as they do every six years. As these conferences are global aquaculture events, participation in Montpellier was expected from more than sixty countries. As was said at the…

Studying fish in the Czech Republic lakes

From The Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, 58th Annual Report Written by: Jan Kubečka Since the Czech Republic has few small natural lakes, Czechs have had to build other lakes themselves. The country now has tens of thousands of arti­ficially built lakes – mainly fishponds, reser­voirs and flooded former…

ClimeFish on the agenda when Finnish school visited UiT

Last week, a group of pupils from Alpilla Upper Secondary School in Helsinki visited Tromsø and the Arctic University. During the time spent at the Fisheries Department, the 16-18-year olds learnt about and discussed several topics, including fisheries, aquaculture and ClimeFish. They were active and engaged, and showed interest in the various topics. Many considered…

Lipno lake survey 2018

The fate of commercial fish in Lipno, the largest reservoir in Czechia, is one of the cases studied in ClimeFish. Two surveys were completed in 2016 and 2017, and a third begins in the last week of August 2018. The previous surveys provided the following: The background for mathematical model of carp population, the most…

Projecting the effects of climate change on fish populations

Climate change is one of the biggest threats for biodiversity nowadays, affecting many aspects of species life, range of suitable areas of occurrence and ecological interactions. Despite of the severity of the phenomena, the number of studies simulating the effects of climate change on fish populations is still rare. In the last years the scientific…

Collaborative project and models developed during UiT visit

Collaborative project developed during Samuel’s visit in Tromsø (5/06/18- 5/07/18) Samuel Dijoux, PhD student, contact: dijous00@prf.jcu.cz Affiliations: Dept. of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czechia Laboratory of Ecology of Aquatic Insects and Relict Ecosystems, Dept. of Biodivdersity and Conservation Biology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, Czechia Brief presentation I am…

ECCWO 2018: What are we missing?

The scope of “The Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans” conference in Washington, ECCWO 2018, was to discuss the consequences of different levels of the 21st century climate change for ocean ecosystems and ocean dependent communities. The 4th International Symposium brought together experts from around the world to better understand climate impacts on…

Vietnam – Strongly exposed to climate change

Nha Trang University in Vietnam is one of the partner institutions in the EU ClimeFish project. According to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index, Vietnam is among 30 countries in the world that is at ‘extreme climatic risk’. The country is frequently exposed to natural disasters, including storms, floods, and droughts. Over the last 50 years,…

CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) – Creating a European standard

ClimeFish will make a European standard for how to incorporate climate aspects into management plans for aquatic resources In addition to the management plans developed for the specific cases in the project, ClimeFish will provide guidelines and good practice recommendations for how these types of management plans can be developed in general. The guidelines will…