ClimeFish in the Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme

ClimeFish has been included in the Scottish Climate change Adaptation Programme Third annual progress report 2017. As a result of the interactions with Marine Scotland (stakeholder from case study C5F), ClimeFish was included as a case study within the Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme. “This interaction proved fruitful beyond expectations and it became evident that…

ClimeFish in Climathon 2017

Galicia embraces the Climathon challenge 2017 The region will participate as innovator in Climathon, a global 24-hour climate change hackathon which will take place simultaneously in major cities around the world on 27 October 2017. ClimeFish and SAF21 teams are behind this initiative with the support of CETMAR Foundation, partner in both projects. Galicia Climathon…

Scientific Committee Meeting

The 13th of September, coordinator, WP leaders and sector leaders in ClimeFish met at MATIS’ locations at Island for the ClimeFish Scientific Committee Meeting. The aim of the meeting was to discuss scientific progress in ClimeFish. We spent one whole day to go through all the work done so far in each WP, pending tasks and…

World Seafood Congress

Reykjavik Island 10th to 13th of September 2017 The World Seafood Congress (WSC) brings together a global audience of seafood processors and importers, academia, public and private organizations, fish inspectors and government and other diverse disciplines.   ClimeFish was there to give two presentations:    Session: Seafood sustainability and food Security Michaela Aschan, UiT the Arctic…

EIFAAC International Symposium

EIFAAC International Symposium Adaptation of inland fisheries and aquaculture to climate change, 3 – 6.09.2017, Stare Jabłonki, Poland About 70 experts from 20 countries gather in the lake district of Mazovian Lakes in Poland under the auspices of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) of Food and Agriculture Organization of FAO to…

A New Era of Blue Enlightenment

The New Era of Blue Enlightenment event took place the 12th -14th of July in Lisbon, Portugal. Commissioner Moedas (research, science and innovation) hosted the event to celebrate the launch of the South Atlantic Research and Innovation Flagship Initiative between the European Union, Brazil and South Africa. Participants enjoyed a blend of plenaries, panel discussions,…

ICES PICES workshop on climate vulnerability assessment

ClimeFish presents at the Workshop on Regional Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the large marine ecosystem in the northern hemisphere (WKSICCME-CVA) ClimeFish was present at the ICES PICES workshop on climate vulnerability assessment for fisheries and aquaculture hosted in Copenhagen from July 19 to 21. This two and half day workshop had a set of…

The ClimeFish Coordinator: Success in H2020

Michaela Aschan and her partners have been very successful in applying for Horison 2020 projects. Their success rate is 30 percent and includes projects like EcoFishMan, MareFrame, SAF21, DiscardLess, PrimeFish, FarFish, besides ClimeFish. The 27th of June, the Norwegian Research Council in Norway published an article on this success. You can read the whole interview with…

3rd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA)

3 days on the latest climate change adaptation science: bringing the best to ClimeFish from ECCA 2017 How is Europe adapting to climate change? What can we learn from other continents’ experience? During 3 days ClimeFish has been learning from other regions and other projects on climate change adaptation at the 3rd European Climate Change…

Survey of the Lipno Lake

One of the biggest challenges in the ClimeFish project is to explain and evaluate the distribution and abundance of fish in the Lipno Reservoir http://climefish.eu/central-europe/ After the collapse of pikeperch fishery in the first decade of the new millennium in Lake Lipno, the population has started to show signs of recovery. Thus, exploitation of pikeperch has again slightly…