Category Archives: Participating Countries

Poster Presentation on Sweden Case Study

July 20, 2012

Poster on the Swedish case study “Selective Whitefish Fishery” presented by Alfred Sandström at the GAP Annual Meeting in Brussels, July 2012. PDF of poster can be found here.
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Gone Fishing with GAP2

July 1, 2012
The boat set sail at 4am, so it was an early start.

In late June, GAP2 made a film about a “day in the life” of a GAP2 scientist working with fishermen on the project’s UK case study looking at brown crab stocks.

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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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GAP2 North Sea Regionalisation Workshop Outcomes

June 1, 2012

What might regionalisation of the Common Fisheries Policy mean in practice for the North Sea? On 25th May 2012, GAP2 held a workshop at Fishmongers’ Hall in London, bringing together stakeholders with widely varying interests in North Sea fisheries. The goal …
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Brown Shrimp conquers Iceland

March 14, 2012

The increasing abundance of this species in Icelands’ coastal waters is likely to be caused by rising water temperatures.
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Data Collection Begins

March 14, 2012

Pablo Pita Orduna, scientist at Universidade de A Coruña, gives the latest update on the Galicia Habitat Mapping GAP2 case study.
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LTMP Special Focus Group for North Sea

March 13, 2012

22nd Feb 2012 – the North Sea RAC Demersal Working Group agreed to establish a special focus group to work with the GAP2 case study.
Posted in Case Study 13 - North Sea Long-Term Planning, Events, GAP2 General, Homepage News, News, News, Progress, United Kingdom |

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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EU-Norway agreement on shared fish stocks

December 5, 2011

The EU and Norway have reached an agreement over the management of shared fish stocks in the North Sea.
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Fishers use GPS to fish sustainably

December 1, 2011

Fishers in Lyme Bay, UK, trial new GPS technology to prevent fishing in illegal or protected areas.
Posted in Homepage News, News, Outputs, Participating Countries, Sustainable fishing, United Kingdom |