Category Archives: News

First Ever Fishery Management Plan For Mediterranean

November 29, 2012
Red Shrimp

Mediterranean fisheries are facing a more sustainable future, now that GAP2 scientists, fishermen and policy makers have co-produced the sea’s first ever fishery management plan.

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Lessons Learned: Implementing Collaboratively Produced LTMPs

July 6, 2012

Within the GAP2 project, we want to facilitate meaningful engagement with stakeholders to help develop solutions for sustainable fisheries and fishing communities. Several of the GAP2 cases studies are engaged in the development of long term management plans (LTMP), e.g. …
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PhD student wins MSC scholarship for GAP2 research

June 26, 2012

PhD student Giulia Gorelli has won a Marine Stewardship Council scholarship for her GAP2 project addressing the closing of two red shrimp fisheries near Palamós, Spain.

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Palamós fisheries closed by unanimous vote

January 11, 2012

On January 10th, over 60 fishermen reached a unanimous agreement to close the deep-sea shrimp fisheries in Palamós
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GAP2 paper on deep-sea shrimp

October 10, 2011

Joan B. Company and Francesc Sardà present at a fishery stakeholder workshop entitled “New Strategies for Mediterranean Deep-Sea Fisheries”, held in Palamós, Spain.

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Three Meetings Held

October 3, 2011

GAP 2 researchers discuss possibilities for a Fishery Management Plan for the red shrimp fishery with the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
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