On April 4, the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute (GoGMI), based in Accra, Ghana, welcomed high school students from across the country to a maritime career fair. On offer were free ocean literacy presentations, lots of information about careers and networking opportunities. The students had beforehand participated in a survey to understand their perceptions of ocean careers. GoGMI is a local partner of the Development of Ocean Tecnical Capacity with African Nations (DOTCAN) Institute of Nova Scotia, Canada. It had invited Mundus maris Ghana to enrich the programme with an information booth.
This talk by Foluke Omotayo Areola provided an overview of the major challenges to the sustainability of small-scale fisheries and their governance in Nigeria. It addressed teh gaps in the administration of the legal instruments in the sector and discussed obstacles in the socio-economic development of such artisanal fisheries within the legal structures of Nigeria at federal, State and local levels. The tension between different levels of statutory law and customary law can be considerable. While Nigeria adheres to a large body of international treaties and arrangements many are yet to be domiciled in order to facilitate the transition from vulnerability to viability (V2V). This was the March webinar of the V2V research platform on small-scale fisheries to which Mundus maris is a partner.
¿Sabías que los tiburones mueren en todo el mundo por millones, especialmente por sus aletas? Europa contribuye con un impactante 45% al comercio de aletas de tiburón de los mercados asiáticos, tanto como principal exportador como centro comercial de aletas de tiburón. Pero esto está a punto de cambiar. ¡La iniciativa ciudadana de la UE @StopFinningEU recopiló más de 1,1 millones de firmas para apoyar el establecimiento de una prohibición comercial de aletas de tiburón en Europa! Ahora Europa tiene la oportunidad de demostrar que se está tomando en serio sus obligaciones de conservación.
El Parlamento Europeo celebró una audiencia muy destacada sobre el asunto el 27 de marzo de 2023.
El sábado 4 de marzo de 2023, el Presidente de la Conferencia Intergubernamental sobre Biodiversidad Marina de las Zonas Fuera de la Jurisdicción Nacional (CIG) encargada de elaborar un Acuerdo para proteger la biodiversidad de alta mar declaró: "El barco ha llegado a la orilla". Tras más de 15 años de debates y negociaciones, por fin se ha alcanzado un consenso sobre un Acuerdo para garantizar la conservación y el uso sostenible de la biodiversidad en las zonas marinas situadas fuera de las jurisdicciones nacionales (BBNJ).
The far-reaching agreement at COP15 in December 2022 which led to the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is the successor of the Aichi targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The webinar on 10 March 2023 featured Mr. Basile van Havre, the Co-Chair for the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Open-Ended Working Group tasked with the development of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The webinar was hosted hosted by the School of the Environment and the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada) and the Community Conservation Research Network.
The 'Feed the Future - Innovation Lab for Fish' is a USAID supported project based at the Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. It had invited Stella Williams of Mundus maris as a keynote speaker on 27 February 2023 at day one of its last annual project meeting in New Orleans. Fittingly, the day's key programme topics were gender, youth, and advancing human and institutional capacity development.
This talk by Andrea M. Collins of the University of Waterloo in Canada provided a high-level overview of the various tools and perspectives for undertaking gender-focused analysis in resource sectors such as small-scale fisheries. Drawing from gender studies, feminist political ecology, feminist political economy, and political science, this talk dispelled the idea that gender analysis means only focusing on women. It showed how understanding the many dimensions of gender roles and relations can improve the analysis of resource management and economic activity, expand our understanding of vulnerability and empowerment, and advance policy-relevant outcomes.
This was the first flagship event of the Mission to restore the ocean and waters, a major European initiative to prevent pollution, protect biodiversity and develop sustainable activities in our ocean and waters by 2030. Forum attendees had the opportunity to get some impressions of the first year of implementation of the Mission, showcasing an initial portfolio of projects and actions to achieve the Mission’s objectives. The full day of plenty of short presentations was interrupted by rather long breaks to allow for discussions and networking. Mundus maris shares some impressions.
Te los puedes encontrar en cualquier paseo por la playa, pequeños trozos de redes de pesca rotas. Pero son solo la punta del iceberg. Probablemente haya decenas de miles de toneladas de redes fantasma en el fondo del mar Báltico o que se hayan quedado atrapadas en los naufragios. Estas redes no solo destruyen con su peso los a veces históricos buques naufragados, sino que también son una trampa mortal para peces, marsopas, focas y pájaros, que quedan atrapados en ellas y desgraciadamente mueren.
This talk dwells upon different research paradigms such as Hypothesis-oriented, Assessment-oriented, Action-oriented, Systems-oriented, Social adaptive (similar to V2V) frameworks. The motivation behind this talk is to discuss research that goes beyond the conventionally defined domains of science; the relevance of non-expert based knowledge to offer solutions to complex social and environmental problems, and the research that can bring significant impacts on people's behavior by small endeavors.
China no solo tiene la flota pesquera más grande del mundo, sino que con 1.400 millones de personas también es un gran mercado de personas a las que les gusta comer pescado y mariscos. Europa, como principal mercado de importación de dichos productos, claramente tiene interés en desarrollar sus relaciones con China de manera que respete los intereses de ambas partes. El Comité de Pesca del Parlamento Europeo se reunió para discutir el papel de China en la pesca mundial en su sesión del miércoles 25 de enero de 2023.