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February 2025

Feb 26
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Eurofish meeting

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The Managing Director of CETMAR, Rosa Chapela, invited as a guest speaker at the annual meeting of EUROFISH partners in Copenhagen

The Managing Director of CETMAR, Rosa Chapela, will participate as a guest speaker at the annual meeting of Eurofish member countries, to take place next Thursday, 30th January, at the headquarters of the international association in Copenhagen.

Around fifty representatives of the ministries responsible for fisheries and aquaculture from the 13 EUROFISH member and partner countries will take part in this meeting. They will address, among other issues, the work programme and budget for 2025, as well as assessing the activities carried out last year.

Traditionally, the work agenda of the annual EUROFISH meeting is completed with two presentations, one by a member of the international organisation, and another by an external expert. This edition it will be offered by the managing director of CETMAR, on behalf of Galicia.

Rosa Chapela will talk about the socioeconomic impact of fisheries and aquaculture in Europe and more specifically in Galicia, stressing the importance of socioeconomic impact studies in both sectors for better informed decision by public administrators.

She will also talk about the few studies of the socioeconomic impact that coastal communities may consult to face a reduction in fishing quotas, including those conducted by the Galician administration with data from experts in fisheries economics from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

The director of CETMAR will thus focus on the need to consider economic and social data together with biological and ecological data for decision-making. This will contribute to a more sustainable fisheries management and improve the welfare of fishing communities. She will cite other examples of economic impact studies being developed by the Galician administration, and related to the blue economy of Galicia, the management of marine space for shellfishing, fishing and aquaculture or the impact of projects from local fisheries action groups in coastal communities.

The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, 31st January at 14:30 hours, after the intervention of Søren Espersen Schrøder, member of Eurofish, who will present a new tool to help decision- making in fishing companies.

EUROFISH is an international organization that works to contribute to the sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture; to promote trade of high quality and value-added fishery products and ease the transfer of information and knowledge.

To meet the objectives, the organization publishes the sectorial information in the Eurofish magazine and website, and organizes congresses, workshops, seminars, and meetings between companies. It also develops projects in the areas of fisheries, aquaculture, markets, and trade. Eurofish’s current member countries are Albania, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and Spain.

Feb 26
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Species with an impact

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Redemar holds an information day on the Sol-Ouxa I project to address the effects of this fish on shellfish stocks in Galicia

This research action is led by the Centre for Marine Research (CIMA)  with the collaboration of CETMAR and the Galician Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.

The objective is to gain knowledge on this natural bivalves predator and to develop with the sector a proposal for measures to mitigate the impact on shellfish stocks.

The Pontevedra’s Federation of Fishermen’s Associations held last Friday a conference on the Sol-Ouxa I project led by CIMA with the collaboration of CETMAR and the Galician Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. The Director General of Fisheries Development, Marta Villaverde, attended the meeting, which aimed at informing the members of the organisation and stakeholders about this scientific action financed by the Regional Department  of the Sea.

The project is developed through the collaboration between the regional marine research centres and the fishing sector (Redemar).  It intends to increase knowledge about the presence of the Chondrichthyan fish Myliobatis aquila, known as ‘ouxa’, traditionally considered one of the main predators of bivalves and therefore of special interest to the shellfish sector in the area.

This action responds to the need of knowledge about the species, present in the Galician marine ecosystem, while confirming  the fishing community’s perception of its impact on shellfish farming. It also lays the foundations to develop activities that analyse the impact on bivalve banks. A line of work that will promote a framework meeting between administration, researchers, and the shellfish and fishing sector, where sharing data and experiences located in Galicia or elsewhere can be possible.

The initiative will allow a diagnosis integrating scientific and technical information with the experience of the sector itself, while identifying research needs in the field. This knowledge is essential to subsequently draw up a proposal for actions agreed with the sector to design effective short- and medium-term protection and prevention measures to mitigate the effects and impacts detected in the banks.

Feb 24
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Transfer of results

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CETMAR hosts a meeting to analyse and plan the transfer of results of the Galician Marine Sciences Programme

The Centro Tecnológico del Mar-Fundación CETMAR has hosted a workshop to analyse and plan the transfer of the results obtained in various work packages of the Galician Marine Science Programme, particularly those regarding aquaculture.

The workshop aimed at developing strategies to manage, exploit and valorise the knowledge achieved in the work packages mostly linked to aquaculture and shellfish resources, and to their dependent coastal communities. The ultimate goal is to favour the impact of this knowledge on end-users in the short, medium and long term.

The event, organised by the Promotion and Technology Transfer area of CETMAR, was attended by researchers and staff from the knowledge transfer departments of the institutions involved in the Programme. There were representatives from the universities of Vigo, Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña, and the IIM-CSIC and the IEO-CSIC.

Through different working groups, participants discussed the factors determining the potential of results to be transferred and generate a positive impact. They identified stakeholders and factors in favour or against transfer, supporting the process with different visualisation tools and grouping the knowledge generated in a catalogue.

The whole-day conference is an action framed into the 11th work package (WP11) of the Galician Marine Science Programme, focused on ‘scientific culture, transfer and training as tools for social transformation for the sustainable development of Galicia in the marine environment’.

The results analysed are related to genomic tools for: sustainable management and improvement of aquaculture productivity (WP6); sustainable shellfish production (WP7); improved capacity for diagnosis and prevention of pathologies in aquaculture and sustainability of fisheries production (WP8); sustainable diversification of aquaculture systems and breeding (WP9) and transformative intervention, in the field of socio-economics, for the resilience of the Galicia’s coastal environment (WP10).

Feb 24
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Cooperation in the Caribbean

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CETMAR participates in a mission to Costa Rica in the framework of a programme to improve and expand the capacities of the fishing sector to use environmentally friendly fishing gear

An expert from the Centro Tecnológico del Mar-Fundación CETMAR is currently participating in a mission to Costa Rica as part of the ‘Adelante2’ programme, which aims to improve and expand the capacities of the Costa Rican fishing sector to use environmentally friendly fishing gear.

Financed by the European Union-Costa Rica, Latin America and the Caribbean Triangular Cooperation Fund, this programme is led by the National Learning Institute (INA) of Costa Rica, and with the participation of the Institute of the Sea of Peru (IMARPE). Now, it enters the final phase with training for the fishing communities of Palito and Montero de Illa Chira and Manzanillo de Limón, in the Caribbean.

Guadalupe Martín Pardo, the Head of the International Cooperation area of CETMAR, participates in the action, aiming at training participants in key issues such as selective fishing gear, traceability of fishery products, circular economy, responsible fishing and ghost fishing.

A four-day workshop will be conducted by experts from the National Learning Institute of Costa Rica. Some months ago they participated in training internships in Spain, assisted by CETMAR, and in Peru, with the help of IMARPE. Both internships were linked to the topics described.

The training of the thirty participants is being supervised by an expert from CETMAR in areas related to the traceability of fishery products, responsible fishing or circular economy, and by an expert from IMARPE.

The mission, that will run until 1st March, includes a meeting with the executive president of INA, the Minister of the Sea and officials from the European Union-Costa Rica-Latin America and the Caribbean Triangular Cooperation Fund. In the meeting, representatives of every institution involved (CETMAR, INA and IMARPE) will present the results of the project.