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Fish Night 8 Webinar: Keeping up momentum for artisanal fisheries and aquaculture

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The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has organized a series of events designed to tackle some of the world’s biggest issues concerning sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, human impact on oceans, and marine and coastal ecosystems. So far, there have been seven Fish Night events bringing together people from academia, government, NGOs, fisherworkers’ collectives, associations and networks to discuss issues regarding sustainable fisheries, aquaculture and oceans governance.

Fish Night 8 will take place on 28 Mar 2023, during 14:00 – 15:15 EEST, online, via Zoom, allowing the participants to discuss on the importance of the small-scale fisheries and aquaculture sectors and to explore opportunities for supporting small-scale actors to overcome challenges and contribute to sustainable development.

In order to register, please access the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fish-night-8-keeping-up-momentum-for-artisanal-fisheries-and-aquaculture-tickets-569852493147


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Financing Opportunity – Choose your Fish: A Campaign for Responsible Consumption of Products from the Sea

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Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)

Call: Actions for the implementation of the Mission Restore our ocean and waters by 2030 (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01)

Type of action: HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

Deadline date: 20 September 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time

Legal entities from Greece, Romania, Türkiye and Ukraine, among other countries, are eligible applicants.

The maximum Horizon Europe funding rate for Coordination and support actions is 100%.

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Accessible and engaging media product to offer information on seafood and aquaculture consumption choices; to ensure a higher outreach, such product must be offered in all EU official languages, and take into account fisheries and aquaculture specificities of all EU sea basins and inland waters;
  • More informed seafood and aquaculture products purchase choices by European citizens;
  • Encourage sustainability of consumption patterns, including on reducing food waste and carbon footprint, and in consideration of future viability of stocks;
  • Support knowledge and consumption of local and seasonal seafood and aquaculture products;
  • Create an awareness campaign, including communication products for e.g. Social Media, to promote the media product and support the objectives as from the above mentioned expected outcomes.

Scope:

Consumers can play a key role in realising the vision of “living well within the limits of our planet”, and can drive sustainable and responsible patterns, including the responsible consumption of seafood and aquaculture products.

The selected proposal should help citizens to make responsible choices in relation to the seasonality of fishes and to fish population decline and, when relevant, to the sustainability of fishing techniques. The campaign should be performed by using the most effective and creative media, tools and types of initiatives to ensure a broad outreach targeting different segments of consumers, including children.

Activities under this topic should also increase awareness and encourage consumption and purchase of seasonal and local seafood and aquaculture products, as well as awareness on health benefits and nutritional value of aquatic food. These activities should also increase awareness on the benefits to the planet from consuming sustainable seafood products (including under organic farming) as well as in relation to the lower relative carbon footprint of aquatic food.

Activities should have a broad geographical coverage in all Member States and Associated Countries. To take in due account local/regional specificities, activities should be co-designed and co-implemented with seafood retailers, consumer associations, producers and SMEs to motivate them to support informed choices of consumers.

Links with the “Taste the Ocean” initiative as well as with other international, national or local initiatives are encouraged in order to maximise the impact on more sustainable seafood and aquaculture products choices.

Applications must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal electronic submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section).

More information available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-miss-2023-ocean-01-10;callCode=null;freeTextSearchKeyword=aquaculture;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=0,1,2,8;statusCodes=31094502;programmePeriod=null;programCcm2Id=null;programDivisionCode=null;focusAreaCode=null;destinationGroup=null;missionGroup=null;geographicalZonesCode=null;programmeDivisionProspect=null;startDateLte=null;startDateGte=null;crossCuttingPriorityCode=null;cpvCode=null;performanceOfDelivery=null;sortQuery=sortStatus;orderBy=asc;onlyTenders=false;topicListKey=topicSearchTablePageState


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Webinar: Classification of Mortalities in Salmonid Aquaculture According to Causality

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The World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association (WAVMA) will hold the webinar Classification of mortalities in salmonid aquaculture according to causality, on the 24th of March, 2023, at 5:00 PM EET.

As part of WAVMA’s WebCEPD webinars, lectures given by leading experts, which are intended as educational programs on a variety of aquatic health issues and veterinary techniques, this webinar presents a new system for classification and real-time monitoring of mortality and losses in industrial salmon culture. 

For more information and for registration, please access the following link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2846502992968282713


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The Future of Aquaculture

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Fisheries products play a critical role in food security and in nutrition. Global Fish Farming is increasing at the rate of 3.1%, the largest growth among food crop.

The following video looks at the future of aquaculture and tries to determine how sustainable fish farming actually is.


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Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global 2023

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Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global 2023 will take place during 25-27 April, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain and will feature an expansive exhibit hall highlighting all types of seafood products as well as processing equipment and services from suppliers from around the globe. 

The event brings together the key players (suppliers, buyers, authorities, distributors, industrials and services) in the seafood sector from around the world, featuring an exhibit hall highlighting different types of seafood products and processing equipment and services from suppliers from around the globe, as well as more than 20 educational sessions, presented by top seafood industry experts. This year’s conferences will cover issues relevant to today’s seafood business environment, focusing on various topics, such as:

  • Aquaculture;
  • Corporate Social Responsibility;
  • Food Safety & Compliance (policy);
  • Seafood Business/Marketplace;
  • Seafood Sustainability;
  • Traceability & Transparency;
  • Plastics & Climate Change as it relates to seafood.

Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global is the largest seafood event, organized to help suppliers expand their businesses around the world. The 2022 edition gathered buyers from 150 countries and exhibitors from 77 countries with 59 national and regional country pavilions. More than 26,700 seafood professionals attended to discover new suppliers and products, connect with contacts and increase orders.

In order to register as an exhibitor or to attend the event, please access the link below:

https://www.seafoodexpo.com/global/


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Aquaculture’s next frontier?

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) prepared a document regarding the offshore farming systems, a specific aquaculture innovation.

The publication contains information on the technique and approach used, scope and scale of application, accessibility, as well as the outcome and benefits of the innovation.

Find out more at: https://www.fao.org/3/cc0731en/cc0731en.pdf


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Good Practices: TOMGOXY – Shrimpfarming Management Platform

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TOMGOXY is a complete shrimpfarming management platform developed by RYNAN Technologies that combines IoT monitoring devices and cloud services with AI-driven data analytics for precision shrimp farming.

More information at: https://rynanaquaculture.com/tomgoxy


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GLOBEFISH Highlights – International Markets for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products

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The publication GLOBEFISH highlights – International markets for fisheries and aquaculture products contains a detailed quarterly update on market trends for various major aquatic species, such as  tuna, groundfish, small pelagics, shrimp, salmon, fishmeal and fish oil, cephalopods, bivalves and crustacea. 

The document also analyses Greece and Turkey exports of seabass and seabream.

You can access the document at the link below:
https://www.fao.org/3/cc1350en/cc1350en.pdf


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Good Practices: IMPAQT – Intelligent Management System for Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture

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IMPAQT is a four-year European project, implemented by an international consortium consisting of 21 institutions (14 academic/research organizations, 4 SMEs and 3 large industries) from 13 countries, which aims to promote and support the eco-intensification of aquaculture production systems.

More information at: https://impaqtproject.eu/


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Possibilities and Examples for Energy Transition of Fishing and Aquaculture Sectors

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The Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (European Commission) has published the document Possibilities and examples for energy transition of fishing and aquaculture sectors, which presents an overview of known initiatives for the energy transition of fishing and aquaculture vessels, up to January 2023. 

The publication is a living document and it will be regularly updated. 

In order to check it out, please access the following link: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/23464c13-b1c0-11ed-8912-01aa75ed71a1