Strategies for improving the next Common Fisheries policy were drawn up at Warsaw workshop in December arranged by FISH.
The Best Practice Workshop, with some 30 participants, had three main objectives:
- To provide successful ideas and methods for how to create change in fisheries policy by working in collaboration with others.
- To provide strategies to influence the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) on national and EU level
- To enable the creation of national collaborative platforms to coordinate and strengthen efforts on CFP reform
Presentations were made by
- Uta Bellion of the Pew Environment Group (“Shark Alliance: A Case Study).
- Niki Sporrong, Director of FISH (“CFP Reform and the OCEAN2012 view).
- Stefanie Schmidt, Desk Officer Baltic, DG MARE (”The Regionalisation of the CFP”)
- Katarzyna Kaminska, of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (“Official Polish Common Position on the reform of the CFP”)
- Domitilla Senni, of the Pew Environment Group, and Christian Tsangarides, Policy Officer, FISH (“Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy – what role can we play?”)
The program included frivolous space for spirited discussions.