Past Events

INVITATION Purpose: Present and discuss the results from the study  “Researching the Environmental impacts of the MSC certification program”, carried out by MRAG, Poseidon and Meridian Prime. We are very pleased to invite you to an occasion to hear and to discuss the results from the study “Researching the Environmental Impacts of the MSC certification program”, carried out by MRAG, Poseidon and Meridian Prime. Your participation is very important to us as discussions such as these are crucial to the process through which MSC strives towards enhancing both our own work and the state of the world’s seas and fish stocks. The meeting will take place in Stockholm during one afternoon. Please confirm your presence (or absence) to helene.tivemark@msc.org, no later than January 12^th.

Date:  24^th of January, 2012 Time: 13:30-16:00 Venue: Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademin, Drottninggatan 95B, Stockholm Preliminary program: Welcome and agenda setting (Minna Epps, MSC) MSC:s Theory of change (Camiel Derichs, MSC) Presentation of the report (Chris Grieve, Meridian Prime) Presentation from featured fishery (TBA) Pause Panel discussion (Participants TBA) Wrap-up  

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• Marine Stewardship Council

The meeting will take up 'Fisheries Resources'. This will be an important meeting during which the new chair and vice presidents will be presented, and secondly the Danish  Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Ms. Gjerskov, will present the priorities of the Danish Presidency. Please check the draft agenda below.

The annual meeting between ICES and the RACs will be held in The Hague on 23-24 January. It will cover cooperation between ICES and the RACs, including a discussion on how to deal with LTMPs and data poor stocks.

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• Further information

A lunch seminar follwed by a panel discussion on aquaculture will take place between 11-13 at the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation office, Åsögatan 115. Participants include the Minister for Rural Affairs, Eskil Erlandsson. For further information and registration, contact louise.bjarke@naturskyddsforeningen.se by the 17th January.

The New CFP reform – More regionalisation, but how? When: Wednesday the 18th of January at 14.00 Where: European Parliament, N3.1, Louis Weiss, Strasbourg On behalf of the Fish for the Future working group, MEP Christofer Fjellner extends an invitation to a seminar on the new CFP reform, specifically addressing the issue of regionalisation in the new fisheries policy. Questions which will be explored include: How do we move the decision making about the waters closer to the member states and the fishermen that depend on them? Everyone seems to talk about it, but how do we make it happen? Speakers include: Mr. Ernesto Penas Lado – Director, Policy development and co-ordination, DG MARE Mr. Henrik Österblom – Associate Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences, Stockholm resilience center. For more information please see below.

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• Fish For the Future

"The conference aims to show and trigger discussions on latest MSP developments at policy as well as implementation level within the European Commission and the Baltic Sea Region. It is open to maritime spatial planning experts and decision makers around all European countries". For more information check out the BaltSeaPlan links below.

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• Conference registration
• Conference Information

Agenda has not yet been prepared. Please check the link below for updates.

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• BSRAC website

January 1 until June 30 2012

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• CFP reform on the Danish Presidency website

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• PECH Information