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ICES Annual Science Conference 2025
The event will bring together the marine science community at this notable location. The theme sessions and network sessions for ASC 2025 will be announced in October 2024, with the call for abstracts opening later in the year.
Additional information are available here
OCTO Webinar
Presented by: Claire Colegrove and Alex Driedger of ProtectedSeas
Description: While hundreds of nations have committed to the global 30x30 target, much work remains to reach that goal and sustainably manage the remaining 70%. Regulatory protections are crucial for marine management efficacy, and accurate data on in-place management measures are essential for assessing existing marine protections and informing the creation of new areas. However, collecting and interpreting marine regulations can be challenging due to often unavailable or difficult-to-access legal instruments. Overlapping measures and siloed management add further complexities. ProtectedSeas Navigator contains data on worldwide regulations for MPAs, fishery management areas, and other place-based marine managed areas (MMAs) and considers restrictions cumulatively across overlapping areas using spatial aggregation techniques to provide insights into overall protection. This cumulative analysis of regulations in overlapping marine managed areas offers insights into overall uses and protection across ocean spaces, enabling better protection assessments, planning, and management. As an example, initial analysis in California revealed several ocean spaces where individual MMA protections were minimal, yet when combined with protections from other overlapping MMAs, resulted in more highly regulated spaces with enhanced protection.
Hosted by: OCTO
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hi_qu9_JTPa-vTIi8ex_4Q
Past events
Our Ocean Conference
The 2024 Our Ocean Conference will be organised in Athens (Greece) at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center the 16th and 17th of April 2024. The event will specifically address four aspects as horizontal elements cutting across the six areas of action of the Conference:
- Sustainable tourism in coastal areas and islands
- Reduction of marine plastic and microplastic pollution
- Green shipping
- Green transition in the Mediterranean
More information is available here
2nd EU Blue Parks Community workshop
The EU Blue Parks Community brings together EU Member States’ national and regional authorities, European marine networks, stakeholders and research and innovation projects. This Community aims to help identify and address challenges, share tools, solutions and good practices, and promote innovative approaches, while enhancing cooperation across the EU sea-basins in order to protect 30% and strictly protect 10% of EU sea areas by 2030.
BLUE4ALL will participate again in this 2nd workshop with the presentation: “BLUE4ALL, facilitating the Blue Parks Community”
Mission Ocean: 1st online workshop of the EU Blue Parks Community, Working together for the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity.
The first workshop’s primary objective is to present the EU Blue Parks Community and its benefits.
The aim is to set and cultivate a collaborative space for networking, knowledge sharing, and relationship-building among national and regional authorities responsible for Marine Protected Areas’ designation and management, related MPA initiatives, relevant EC-funded projects (Horizon Europe, Life, EMFAF), and appropriate networks.