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Discussion on Mediterranean Progress: Insights from ICM-CSIC, WWF Spain, and Marine Stewardship Council Experts
(SPAIN, 4/11/2024)
Marine Stewardship Council has just launched the impact report of the MedPath project, which includes solutions to the problems of overexploitation and vulnerability of the Mediterranean Sea.
The MedPath project, which is being developed in Spain, France, Italy and Greece, together with collaborators such as WWF, is helping fisheries that do not yet meet the requirements for certification under the MSC Fisheries Standard, but are working to improve their behavior at an ecological level.
Source: 2024 Ocean Decade Conference
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to end overfishing, has organized the satellite event Restoring European seas: sustainable fisheries management and deep-sea ecosystems, within the framework of the Ocean Decade Conference 2024 of the UN, an event focused on the Mediterranean Sea, which represents only 0.7% of the surface of the world's oceans, is home to 7.5% and 18%, respectively, of the species of fauna and flora marine.
This event, jointly organized by the Barcelona Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), WWF Spain and MSC, has highlighted the ideas and achievements of various stakeholders, emphasizing two vital facets of the health of the oceans: sustainable management of fisheries and seabed restoration.
 FIS Seafood Media.jpg) The introduction of the event has been in the hands of Jordi Grinyó, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC), who has given way to the workshop on the MedPath project in which its coordinator, Julio Agujetas, head of Mediterranean fisheries at MSC , explained how various initiatives have positively influenced the collection of data and the management of Mediterranean fisheries. Nixon Bahamon, postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the Aristock Project, participated in the workshop, presenting the current status of the A. antennatus stock in the Palamós fishery, as well as management strategies to reduce fishing pressure on the stock and ensure its long-term sustainability; and Miquel Ortega, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC) and member of the scientific team of the SEINE-ETP Project, which has characterized the interactions of the Castellón purse seine fleet with endangered, threatened or protected species.
Likewise, representatives of the seabed restoration projects LIFE ECOREST (Marina Biel, Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC), LIFE Lophelia (Susanna Strömberg, University of Gothenburg), LIFE DREAM (Giorgio Castellan, Istituto di Scienze Marine) and REDRESS (Roberto Danovaro, Università Politecnica delle Marche) have shared their experiences in the recovery of several key benthic habitats.
Source: Laura R. Zugasti MSC
The event concluded with a round table moderated by José Luis García Varas, director of the WWF Spain marine program, in which Marta Coll, senior researcher and deputy director general of the Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, participated; Joan Baptista Company, senior researcher and head of department at the Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC; Valentina Grande, researcher at the Istituto di Scienze Marine; and Miquel Gómez, head of fisheries at WWF Spain. The panelists analyzed how these projects can contribute to improving the functioning of ecosystems in European waters by addressing fisheries management and seabed restoration with scientific methods.
Author: Asun Talavera | Marine Stewardship Council (Translated from the original in Spanish)
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