CETMAR participates in the III Galicia Forum on Global Seafood Sustainability in Vigo, which brings together more than 350 participants from 30 countries and 21 experts
- The Regional Minister of the Sea, Alfonso Villares, stated at the opening that sustainability guarantees food sovereignty.
- The managing director of CETMAR, Rosa Chapela, moderated the round table about the scientific vision.
CETMAR participated in the 3rd edition of the Global Seafood Sustainability Forum of Galicia, which brought together in Vigo more than twenty experts in different subjects and gathered more than 350 participants.
The Regional Minister of the Sea, Alfonso Villares; the Mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero; the Director General of Fisheries and Aquaculture Management, Aurora de Blas, and the President of Fundación Nueva Pescanova, José María Benavent, opened the forum, held at the headquarters of Afundación in Vigo. With the participation of 350 attendees from 30 countries, the debate on sustainability in fisheries and aquaculture was followed in person and online.
At the opening of the forum, promoted by Fundación Nueva Pescanova and the Xunta de Galicia with the support of the Nueva Pescanova Group and ABANCA, Mr. Alfonso Villares recalled that the maritime-fishing sector is one of the most important economic activities in Galicia and, to keep it like that, it must apply the utmost respect for the environment, in balance with the socioeconomic pillar, as the Galician Government advocates in the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). This is the way, he said, to avoid dependence on imports from third countries, otherwise the policies would divert towards an unsustainable model.
Mr. Villares stated that sustainability, whose measurement was the focus of the debate, ‘requires collaboration between public and private sectors and active listening, as well as research, innovation and dissemination that must be based on the essential economic profitability of fisheries to guarantee the future in the sea’.
The managing director of CETMAR, Rosa Chapela, moderated the round table on the vision of science and the measurement of sustainability, with the participation of researchers Elena Ojea, from the CIM-University of Vigo, and Fran Saborido Rey, from the Institute of Marine Research-CSIC, together with Madlen Sobkowiak, director of the MSc Global and Sustainable Business EDHEC.
