Monthly Archives: January 2014

GAP2 out and about: Shark By-Watch UK meeting

January 29, 2014
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Recently our GAP2 Communications Officer, Katrina Borrow, took a trip across town to attend the ‘Shark By-Watch UK’ showcase meeting in London, and learn more about collaborative research in action around UK inshore fisheries.

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Maiken Bjorkan’s Blog: Who are stakeholders?

January 28, 2014
Closed Season

After interviewing a range of GAP2 participants, Maiken Bjorkan contemplates the way in which we use the word ‘stakeholder’
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Galicia Case Study Update: New horizons in the co-management of the octopus fishery

January 27, 2014

GAP2 scientist Pablo Pita Orduna, from La Coruna University in Galicia, Northern Spain, offers an update on the findings of the GAP2 octopus fishery case study.

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GAP2 attends FITF steering group meeting

January 27, 2014

GAP2 colleagues Alan Steer and Steve Mackinson attend a Fishing Into The Future (FITF) steering group meeting, contributing their expertise to discussions with HRH Prince of Wales.

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GAP2 attends MIRAC 2014

January 17, 2014

Scientists Steve Mackinson and Kari Stange report back on MIRAC 2014 for GAP2.
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Maiken Bjorkan’s Blog: The Red Shrimp LTMP – Getting to Know the Fishers’ Perspective

January 17, 2014
Closed Season

Anthropologist Maiken Bjorkan interviews a number of fishers, to get their views on long-term planning for their red-shrimp fishery.
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Giving European Small-Scale Fisheries a Place: Research Priorities and Opportunities

January 16, 2014

Easkey Britton, from the global research partnership ‘Too Big To Ignore’ writes on their first research brief for GAP2.
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Maiken Bjorkan’s blog: Twelve grapes, three kings and a closed season

January 10, 2014

Maiken picks her favourite festive traditions from the Catalan region of Spain, and updates us on her latest research for the GAP2 exchange
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