Past Events

The Conference is hosted by the Faroese Ministry of Fisheries as a flagship project in the 2015 Nordic Council of Ministers Chairmanship Program. The objective of the Conference is to provide an overview of the huge growth potential in marine bio-economy. The target audience is ministers, parliamentarians, industry, investors, decision makers and policy advisers. The focus will be on essential policy initiatives to support growth in the marine sector. The Nordic Marine Think Tank, NMTT, is responsible for the organisation of the conference.

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Marint Centrum in Simrishamn, Sweden are hosting a conference dedicated to ghost nets.

Please see attached pdf for more information and how to register (in Swedish).

More info forthcoming.

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Second Meeting of the Group on the State of the Environment and Nature Conservation. For more information please see link below.

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The meeting will take place in Helsinki, Finland. The Executive Committee will start at 09.00 and finish at 12.30. The General Assembly will start at 13.30 and end at 16.00.

Elections for members of the Executive Committee, the BSAC chair as well as the position of honorary chair of the General Assembly will be held. BSAC General Assembly organisations are invited to send nominations to the Secretariat (with a short CV of your nominee). Nominations are due Tuesday 7th April 2015.

For agenda and meeting information please see links below.

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The Scientific Symposium ”Tools for assessing status of European aquatic ecosystems” is a joint product of the research programmes DEVOTES, WATERS (www.waters.gu.se) and MARS (www.mars-project.eu).

The symposium will bring together scientists and environmental managers to present and discuss state-of-the-art indicator development and assessment methods for ecological/environmental status of freshwater and marine ecosystems. The focus of the presentations will be related to the implementation of EU Water Framework Directive and EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

Please see link below for more information and how to register.

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More info forthcoming.

More info forthcoming.

The XXIInd Conference of the European Association of Fisheries Economists will be held in Salerno from 28th to 30th April 2015. And is organised by NISEA, Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics Research, Salerno and DISES, Department of Economics and Statistics Sciences, University of Salerno.

The theme of the conference is "New management issues within the reformed Common Fishery Policy: implementation and socio-economic impacts". The conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of recent advances in capture fisheries and aquaculture economics and management and to promote discussion amongst researchers, managers, policy makers and other stakeholders in the fisheries sector.

Last day to register is January 31. To register your participation to the EAFE2015 conference, please use the registration form to be filled in at http://www.eafe2015.unisa.it/registration/registration

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