Collaboration between “Sustainable Network” and “NovasArc” on VME distribution and vulnerability information, and fishing fleet certification

Since 2022 the project “Sustainable Network” (a network of organizations) has operates to support sustainable fisheries with the main goal of using the best practices to evaluate fisheries in Iceland, Faroes, Norway and Greenland for the MSC certification process. From 2016 to 2024, scientists from the Marine Research Institutes in Norway, Iceland, and the Faroes, have collaborated to document VMEs in national waters in the project “NovasArc“ https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-527/index.html (funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers). The aim has been on models and to predict present and future distribution of VMEs in the Nordic seas and impact from fisheries.  Since 2023 these two groups have been collaborating in the project “Sufi-Nova”.

The main goal of the project “Sufi-Nova” is to support communication between Fisheries and Science. An important objective for the project is to arrange a set of workshops/symposia to support communication between the main stakeholders in relation to sustainable fisheries. 

A symposium with the title “Knowledge for sustainable fisheries” will held at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen onthe 13-14^th. November 2024.

We hope that the Bergen symposium on Knowledge for Sustainable fisheries will broaden the forum for knowledge exchange to including management entities, fishermen organisations, scientists, and NGOs on present views on best practice for fisheries in the Nordic seas.

HOVEDPARTNER:

Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland, Steinunn H. Ólafsdóttir, 

steinunn.hilma.olafsdottir@hafogvatn.is

ANDRE PARTNERE:

Julian M. Burgos, Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland
Kristinn Hjálmarsson, Icelandic Sustainable Fisheries
Petur Steingrund, Havstovan, Faroe Islands
Lis Mortensen, Jardfengi, Faroe Islands
Durita i Grótinum, Faroe Islands Sustainable Fisheries
Nadescha Zwerschke, Greenlandic Institute of Natural Resources
Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Tor Björklund Larsen, Norges Fiskarlag
Kristina Guldbæk, Polar Seafood Greenland
Lisbeth Schoenemann-Paul, Royal Greenland
Sofia Smedegaard Mathiesen, Henrik Lund, Danmarks Fiskeriforening

Støtte fra AG-Fisk:
DKK 900.000